Andrew Hudson
Andrew Hudson, Head of the United Nations Development Program’s Water and Oceans Governance Program, explains how the climate crisis is the epicenter of our environmental challenges; however, there are many others such as overfishing, invasive species, pollution from agriculture, wastewater habitat loss of mangroves, coral reefs and seagrass, ocean acidification and islands of plastics floating in the oceans and below surface. He emphasized that the upcoming UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon will focus on sustaining the coral reefs, especially the Great Barrier Reef, the largest in the world. Goal number 14 of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to sustainably conserve and use the oceans and seas in a responsible manner.
