The former President of Costa Rica, Jose Maria Figueres and David Miliband, former member of Parliament and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in Great Britain, debated whether its actually possible to govern the high seas.
Figueres remained optimistic about the potential of a world ocean coalition saying the laws of the seas shouldn’t be the end but just the beginning and that the world should set its sights higher.
“There is no planet B,” he said.
Miliband suggested instead of instituting a world ocean organization to regulate and enforce the seas, which could wreak havoc when two countries battle over enforcement as a means to institute political will, “naming and shaming” the countries who are degrading the oceans is a much better solution.
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