珊瑚礁拥有丰富的海洋生态系统，保护海岸线免受洪水和侵蚀，每年为全球带来的好处估计价值数万亿美元。但珊瑚礁面临着海洋变暖、疾病和旅游业等威胁。联邦珊瑚礁保护计划在保护和恢复珊瑚礁方面发挥着关键作用

With control of 84 per cent of the global economy, G20 nations are the world’s driving force for development and growth. This is a good thing. However, while acknowledging the diversity and different development paths within G20 nations, this strength and influence also makes the bloc largely responsible for many of the environmental issues facing the world today. Unsustainable production and consumption patterns in the G20 are driving the three environmental planetary crises: the crisis of climate change, the crisis of nature and biodiversity loss, and the crisis of pollution and waste. This is indisputable. Now, the G20 faces a choice. Lead the world down the same high-carbon, resource-hungry path that is threatening to undermine the many gains the G20 has brought and cripple the Sustainable Development Goals. Or lead the world down a new, better path that brings the world into harmony with nature. By endorsing the high-level principles on Lifestyles for Sustainable Development under the development track, this cycle and the Indian presidency has shown that the G20 is embracing the latter path. My thanks to the Indian Presidency for its commitment. There are, of course, many areas in which the G20 can lead as it follows the brighter path for humanity it is increasingly committed to. But let us focus on the three themes of this session, which are also UNEP priority areas.

UNEP’s Leticia Carvalho discusses the importance of a healthy ocean at the ongoing UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.