The highlights of this system on the oceans with Emmanuel Macron | EUROtoday

L‘program wished to be distinctive. While 100 nations are introduced collectively from June 9 to 13 for the Nice summit on the oceans, France 2 devoted a program to the topic in prime time, with the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron.

For virtually 2:30 am, the top of state answered a number of dozen questions requested each by journalists Léa Salamé and Hugo Clément, but in addition by different specialists within the topic akin to astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the glaciologist Heïdi Sevestre, photographer Laurent Ballesta or the activist Anne-Sophie Roux.

Prohibit social networks for kids underneath 15

At the opening of the particular program devoted to the oceans, the President of the Republic briefly spoke to evoke the drama that occurred on Tuesday, June 10: the assassination of Mélanie G., supervisor in a school, stabbed fatally close to the institution.

Read too Profile of the suspect, deceased supervisor: what we all know in regards to the knife assault in a school in Haute-MarneEmmanuel Macron took this chance to reaffirm his want to ban entry to social networks to underneath 15. “I give us a few months to achieve European mobilization; Otherwise, we will start doing it in France, “he said.

At the same time, the head of state announced, like the Prime Minister a few minutes earlier on TF1, the future prohibition of selling knives to minors on the Internet. “This means that we are going to put massive, financial, prohibitions,” he said about platforms allowing the purchase of knives by minors.

Christophe Castaner: “A zero question”, Tance Emmanuel Macron

At the same time, while the debate focused on fast-fashion and plastic pollution in the oceans, Hugo Clément and Léa Salamé put the president in the face of an annoying contradiction: the appointment of his former Minister of the Interior at Shein, a company regularly pointed out for its ecological impact.

An arrest all the more spicy since the Senate has just adopted a bill aimed at braking fast-fashion, at the very moment when the issue alerted to the consequences of our consumption modes on ocean pollution.

On the screen, they displayed the face of Christophe Castaner, converted into a strategic advisor in France of Shein, a low -cost clothing platform.

Read too Why Christophe Castaner and former French ministers work for Shein“Politicians too, Mr. President, have their role played. What do you say to this man you know well, who was one of your loved ones, (…) who works for Shein “, Launched Hugo Clément to Emmanuel Macron. And to question: ” Is there nothing that bothers you? ». “It’s a bit bad what you are doing, right?” Putting people in the pillory (…) I don’t like these methods, ”retorted the top of state, visibly irritated.

“95 nations” sign the call of Nice for an ambitious treaty on plastics

While the United Nations Conference on the Oceans began two days ago, the Head of State announced the signature by “95 nations” of the Nice appeal in the fight against the proliferation of plastic in the oceans. “We are asking for the adoption of a worldwide goal aimed toward lowering the manufacturing and consumption of major plastic polymers at sustainable ranges,” write the signatories of this declaration. In December 2024, in Busan (South Korea), discussions on this subject had notably failed in the face of the refusal of several countries.

Read too Macron goes to war … against plastic in the oceanDuring the program, the Head of State reaffirmed his will “to take the worldwide neighborhood to massively scale back using plastic”. “We must get out of plastic,” he said, emphasizing a transition to lead “sector by sector”. The international community must come together in August, in Geneva, to negotiate a binding agreement on plastic.

From 4 to 14 % protected sea areas

The subject was expected by several experts. The background trawling in protected sea areas is today one of the most impactful factors in the destruction of the oceans. Between 7 and 10 million tonnes of fish are accidentally captured or captured in the world.

Faced with this problem, the head of state has promised “new protected maritime areas”. “Before the summit, we have been 4 % sturdy safety, after the summit, we’ll drop to 14 %,” he said.

A halftone announcement that several speakers around the table did not fail to qualify against the President of the Republic. “France is an efficient pupil (…) on the forefront of marine safety,” said Emmanuel Macron, stressing that France had only one industrial fishing boat.

The ratification of the high seas protection treaty

Emmanuel Macron could not help shed a smile at the announcement of this advance. “More than 60 nations have dedicated” to ratify the High Sea Protection Treaty “Before September”, he assured, Tuesday, June 10, on the Plateau de France 2. “Yes, that is the success of Nice,” said the Head of State. As of January 1, 2026, the date on which the treaty will come into force, “the excessive seas will now not be the West West”.

Read too In Nice, the ocean bet of Ursula von der LeyenThis treaty would represent the first legally binding international agreement dedicated to the protection of biodiversity on the high seas, which covers nearly two thirds of the planet’s oceans. It is considered a key tool to combat overfishing, reduce plastic pollution, supervise the mining of seabed and reach the global objective “30 for 30”, aimed at preserving 30 % of the oceans by 2030.

The alert on oil operations at the bottom of the oceans

Special guest of this program, Tau Metuktire, grandson of Cacique Raoni, came to send the video message of his grandfather to the President of the Republic.

“I ship you this message so that you simply inform the opposite heads of state to guard the oceans. I don’t need oil exploitation within the mouth of the rivers or on the backside of the oceans, so assist me cease these initiatives. I handed the identical message to [Luiz Inácio] Lula [da Silva] And I wished to cross it to you too, “asked the head of the Kayapó people of the Amazon forest in a recorded video, while the Brazilian government is favorable to oil exploration in the north of the country.

In response, Emmanuel Macron said: “I feel it will be good for him to do it, however it’s not for me to offer him classes”, before welcoming the efforts of his counterpart to “cease the deforestation launched by his predecessor”.

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Another particular visitor: Paul Watson, founding father of Sea Shepherd and emblematic determine of the battle towards whale searching. Arrested by the Danish authorities following a world arrest warrant issued by Japan, and after spending 100 and forty-nine days in jail in Greenland, the activist requested for political asylum in France from Emmanuel Macron.

“He respects all the rules to obtain it,” replied the Head of State, who, underneath the beneath, would have performed an necessary position within the liberation of the septuagenarian in December 2024.