foreign thank you thank you winning the environmental war will require a commitment far beyond any commitment ever made by any society in the history of man are we able yes are we willing that's the unanswered question today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking so that Humanity stops threatening its life support system the oceans are being assaulted by carbon dioxide plastic and pollution illegal fishing and too much fishing in some places it's huge and it's powerful and it's big but it's fragile together citizens of the world we will work to save our planet from ourselves there is a place in Baja California called Cabo pulmo 30 years ago it's populations were completely decimated and then one Brave family decided to prohibit fishing on their own Reef in a single human generation the fish have come back spectacularly the ocean has an extraordinary capacity to regenerate when it is protected we're not going to meet this challenge unless the community of Nations comes together around a single comprehensive Global Ocean strategy foreign today I can announce we are taking steps to create two new Marine sanctuaries the New Zealand government will establish a 620 000 square kilometer ocean sanctuary in the comedy region kiribus has taken the decision to fully close all commercial fishing it is within the Phoenix Islands protected the area foreign Norway will do its part to combat Marine plastic waste and micro Plastics foreign we know what we need to do to address the threats facing the ocean there's nothing that we're looking at that doesn't have a solution foreign