French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the US for withdrawing climate funding, emphasizing the need for global cooperation to protect the oceans amid rising pressures. Speaking ahead of the UN Ocean Conference, he highlighted the dependency of international science on American funding and called for a moratorium on deep-sea exploitation. Macron noted that around 30 countries have committed to halting such activities, underscoring the urgency for nations to transform promises into actions to tackle the global emergency facing oceans due to climate change and pollution.
"Unfortunately, if we are more or less clear-headed, we are at a time when international science, which still depends a lot on American funding, is withdrawing this funding, where we have a lot of people who are questioning multilateralism and these agencies."
"Because it's completely crazy. It's completely crazy to go and exploit, to go and drill in a place we don't know. It's frenzied madness."
"There are already about 30 of us who have agreed. We're not going to give up. It's completely crazy to go and exploit, to go and drill in a place we don't know."
"The threats to the world's oceans are a global emergency facing the oceans, as they confront rising temperatures, plastic pollution choking marine life, and relentless degradation."
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