Africa-Press – Angola. The United Nations Conference on the Oceans started this Monday morning in Lisbon (Portuguese capital), with the presence of several Heads of State and Governments, including the Angolan President, João Lourenço, who is expected to speak today at the date.
The opening session already featured the first interventions, namely the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Kenya, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres.
After the first conference took place in New York five years ago, Portugal, together with Kenya, organizes the second meeting, under the motto “Save the Oceans, Protect the Future”.
This is the theme that brings together politicians from today to Friday, including 25 Heads of State and Government and a hundred ministers, at least 38 specialized agencies and international organizations, almost 1,200 non-governmental organizations and other entities, more of 400 companies and one hundred and a half of universities.
The numbers make the Portugal conference the biggest event ever held on the oceans, their problems, how to protect them or economic opportunities, considering that a “green transition” is only possible with a “blue transition”, which is the sustainable use of the oceans, based on science and technology.
These will be the central themes of the event, which takes place mainly at Altice Arena, Parque das Nações, whose main program includes three hundred other events, four of them special, organized by Portugal, a high-level symposium on water, today, and a forum on sustainable blue economy and investment on Tuesday.
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