FUTURE OF THE WORLD'S OCEANS

Early day motion 1982, tabled 22 June 2011 by Tony Lloyd (Labour). Signed by 41 members.

That this House notes that the report of the International Programme on the State of the Oceans concludes that the world's oceans face the imminent threat of loss of species on a scale only comparable with the mass extinctions of the distant past; realises that such a threat to oceans would have equally drastic consequences for land-based life; recognises that the drivers of this potential environmental disaster are man-made, including over-fishing, acidification through atmospheric greenhouse gases, pollution and nutrient saturation from run-off from farming; and calls on the Government to examine the conclusions of this report with urgency and to present practical proposals with equal urgency to the UN and other appropriate international bodies for the reform of the Law of the Sea and the governance of the oceans.

Signatures by party: Labour 20, Liberal Democrat 9, DUP 4, Social Democratic and Labour Party 3, Plaid Cymru 2, Conservative 1, Green 1, Independent 1.