MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD
Your Name
*
Your Country
United States of America
United Kingdom
Canada
Albania
Angola
Algeria
Andorra
Antigua And Barbuda
Armenia
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Bahrain
Barbados
Belize
Belarus
Belgium
Bhutan
Bénin
Bosnia And Herzegovina
Bolivia
Botswana
Brunei Darussalam
Brazil
Bulgaria
Cabo Verde
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Croatia
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Costa Rica
Côte D'ivoire
Cyprus
Cuba
Czech Republic
Denmark
Democratic Republic Of Congo
Dominica
Djibouti
Eritrea
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Equatorial Guinea
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
Gambia
France
Gabon
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guyana
Guatemala
Guinéa
Guinéa-Bissau
Holy See (Vatican)
Haïti
Hungary
Honduras
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Kenya
Jordan
Kosovo
Kazakhstan
Kiribati
South Korea
North Korea
Laos
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lesotho
Lebanon
Liberia
Liechtenstein
Libya
Lithuania
Macedonia - Now North Macedonia
Luxembourg
Malawi
Madagascar
Malaysia
Maldives
Malta
Mali
Marshall Islands
Mauritius
Mauritania
Micronesia (Federated States Of)
Mexico
Moldova
Montenegro
Monaco
Mongolia
Mozambique
Morocco
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Niue
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Nicaragua
Niger
Norway
Pakistan
Oman
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Panamá
Philippines
Paraguay
Perú
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Qatar
Saint Kitts And Nevis
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
Samoa – has signed MAPS
San Marino
Serbia
Sao Tomé Et Principe
Saudi Arabia
Sénégal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Somalia
South Sudan
Sri Lanka
Spain
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland *Now Eswatini*
Sweden
Tajikistan
Switzerland
Syria
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Togo
Trinidad And Tobago
Turkey
Tunisia
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Uruguay
Vanuatu
Viet Nam
Venezuela
Zambia
Yemen
Zimbabwe
Your E-mail
*
Message
*
While the world is focused on the urgency to quash the rise of COVID-19, we are also becoming aware that our survival depends on our swift response to a global crisis and our disruption of ecosystems is at the root of the mess in which we find ourselves. However, our collective immunity, as well as our access to food and water, rely on one ecosystem in particular whose decline increasingly threatens our survival with each passing second: the Arctic Ocean. It is not only our world’s climate linchpin that regulates life-giving weather patterns; it is critical in preventing future pandemics. The vulnerable Arctic Ocean and its invaluable ice shield us from millennia of buried pathogens, such as anthrax and potentially smallpox, Spanish flu and the plague. Should they emerge, they would devastate us all. Diseases have already begun to escape and claim lives. COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on humanity because we had no immunity to it. How many pathogens lie beneath the ice for which we have no name, let alone immunity or cure? At the same time, our global guardian is under attack as never before. The Arctic Ocean’s ice is vanishing at an alarming rate due to our collective recklessness, while corporations and governments seek to profit off its melt. MAPS, the Marine Arctic Peace Sanctuary, is our world’s urgently needed medical mask to keep us healthy and safe. It declares the entire Arctic Ocean north of the Arctic Circle an ocean preserve, stopping all activity that harms the melting sea ice. MAPS supports almost every UN Sustainable Development Goal. As Yvo de Boer, Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, says, “MAPS is the only sane choice for the critically vulnerable Arctic ecosystem, for the sake of our seas, our atmosphere and all life.” We know from the tragedies of COVID-19 that delayed action leads to an incalculable increase in deaths. As such, I urge you to act on this critical and life-saving information and join the growing number of world leaders who have already signed onto the MAPS Treaty. Everyone has the right to a healthy world.
If I am a European Union citizen I confirm I am over 16
SEND
Should be Empty: