[Climate Action and Sustainable Partnership for Impact]
In the Caspian region, the effects of climate change (environmental degradation, economic impacts, social and health risks) are combined with a lack of co-operation (fragmented efforts, insufficient data sharing, lack of funding and lack of capacity), creating a vicious cycle and pushing the Caspian region toward a tipping point.
Without urgent, coordinated action, the region risks irreversible ecological and socio-economic damage.
Urgent knowledge gaps must be filled to address pollution threats to ecosystems, human health, and livelihoods. This knowledge will support stakeholder-designed solutions to eliminate pollution and transition to a circular economy.
Improving access to and quality control of data, knowledge, and technology in ocean science is crucial. This, coupled with increased skills and opportunities, will enhance management, innovation, and decision-making for sustainable development.
Ocean literacy, education, and access are needed to change society’s relationship with the ocean and highlight its value. This will inspire the next generation of ocean stewards.
“We do have a choice: Creating tipping points for climate progress – or careening to tipping points for climate disaster. This is an all-in moment.
The United Nations is all-in – working to build trust, find solutions, and inspire the cooperation our world so desperately needs. It’s We the Peoples versus the polluters and the profiteers.
Together, we can win. But it’s time for leaders to decide whose side they’re on.
Tomorrow is too late. Now is the time to mobilise, now is the time to act, now is the time to deliver.”
— António Guterres Secretary-General of United Nations special address on climate action 05 June 2024