United Nations: Reducing marine debris by 50-90 percent and establishing a globe-circling, high-tech monitoring system are two of the key goals championed by nine eminent worldwide experts recruited to assist the United Nations in achieving its objective of a clean ocean by 2030.

The UN Decade for Ocean Science for Sustainable Development's Clean Ocean International Expert Group will formally present its short list of activities and goals, as well as a strategy to achieve them, in a "manifesto" at the start of a three-day online conference on achieving a clean ocean that will end on November 19.

The committee, co-chaired by German biodiversity expert Angelika Brandt and Mexican deep marine biodiversity researcher Elva Escobar Briones, clearly describes "the obstacles and some of the opportunities that the Ocean Decade can give for a clean ocean."

The declaration lays out the most straightforward path to a clean ocean, stating the following 2030 goals: Reduce and eliminate top-priority kinds of pollution (e.g. marine debris) by large amounts, as much as 50 to 90 percent, and reduce sources or release of pollutants to prevent recurrence (e.g. anthropogenic noise, discarded plastic and harmful chemicals, farming practises adding harmful sediment outflow).

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