Eric Solheim, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program, addressed the forum.
From December 9 to November 11, the annual meeting of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (hereinafter referred to as the 'China Cooperation Council') was held in Beijing in 2017. The China Cooperation Council is a non-profit and international high-level policy advisory body approved by the Chinese government. The annual meeting will adopt the constitution of the 6th ICC and listen to the research report on the policies related to the green transformation in China and discuss the policy proposals for forming the CCICED to the Chinese government.
On December 9, Swansson, director of marine affairs of the United Nations Environment Program, said at the sub-forum on "Global Ocean Governance and Ecological Civilization" that China is not only a big marine country but also a big marine fishery breeding country while its fishery is oriented to the oceans. China needs to find a A more sustainable model of fishery farming addresses the pollution of plastic trash, sewage and antibiotics to coastal waters.
'Marine pollution is global,' Svensson said in the past few days she went to Kenya, saw a lot of plastic at the beach, some of the sea turtles are trapped in plastic, doctors need to consider how to take the plastic off the sea turtle's body, Governments need to think about how to deal with marine pollution together.
"In Africa, most of the plastic is not from Africa, but drifts from Africa or elsewhere in Japan or elsewhere, but plastic pollution has affected Africa's marine ecosystems," Svensson said.
Eric Solheim, executive director of UNEP, said that over the past few years, global plastic pollution is getting worse and that all countries must act together to deal with the problem. To solve the problem of the marine environment requires not only the will and support of the government, but also the need of citizens to take action.
'In Mumbai, I saw the largest clean-up work in human history and in Indonesia I have seen thousands of people going to the beach to clean up rubbish, etc.' he said.
