UNITED NATIONS: The world must harness "clear, transformative and actionable solutions" to address the ocean crisis, the president of the UN General Assembly said on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) as he opened a meeting to generate momentum toward the 2022 UN Ocean Conference, when public health safety measures allow.

"Simply speaking, our relationship with our planet's ocean must change," Volkan Bozkir told a high-level thematic debate on the ocean and Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG14): Life Below Water.

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