Global synthesis: a report from the Regional Seas Conventions and action plans for the marine biodiversity assessment and outlook series
Environmental Governance, Biodiversity Conservation
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The biological diversity of the 72% of our planet covered by seawater is crucial to global resource security, ecosystem function and climate dynamics. We know little of the extent and the interactions of marine biological diversity but in all of the UNEP Regional Seas changes in biodiversity are the symptom of failures to manage marine ecosystems.