In the wake of collapsed U.N.-backed talks, ocean defenders this week are urging global governments to reach a robust treaty by year’s end to safeguard the world’s high seas from exploitation and the climate crisis.

“Government promises to protect at least a third of the world’s oceans by 2030 are already coming off the rails,” Will McCallum of Greenpeace’s Protect the Oceans campaign said in a statement Monday.

A failure to reach a Global Ocean Treaty in 2022 would mean “no way to create ocean sanctuaries in international waters to allow them to achieve that 30×30 goal,” he said. “This treaty is crucial because all of us rely on the oceans: from the oxygen they give to the livelihoods and food security they provide.”

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