Minister George attends United Nations Oceans Conference in France [SOUND]

# Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment minister Dion George is today attending the third United Nations Oceans Conference in Nice, France. The conference seeks to accelerate global action to conserve and sustainably use the ocean, in support of Sustainable Development Goal 14: ‘Life Below Water’. The department’s spokesperson, Thobile Zulu-Molobi says this year’s conference theme is accelerating action and mobilising all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean with advancing multilateral ocean processes and ambition, and scaling up financing for ocean sustainability and blue economies: