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Key government officials and foreign experts on biodiversity recently gathered for the first of a series of biodiversity conferences or “Blue Talks” between the Philippines and France.
French Ambassador to the Philippines Marie Fontanel explained that the Blue Talk conference is part of the Blue Nations initiative, a holistic program of bilateral cooperation between the France and Philippines in the perspective of working together as two maritime nations towards the next United Nations Ocean Conference(UNOC), which will take place in France in June 2025.
“It was very important to start this cycle of five conferences with a discussion on biodiversity because this subject will be at the core center of the next UNOC in France… Discussions on marine biodiversity and biodiversity conservation is also very important because the Philippines, an archipelagic state made up of more than 7,100 islands, maintains an existential link with the ocean,” Fontanel said.
