High Seas Alliance

The High Seas Alliance is a partnership of more than 45 organizations and groups working to improve protection for nearly 50 percent of the planet that is the high seas. Our aim is to ensure that the intergovernmental conference taking place at the United Nations for the development of a new legally binding treaty under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, results in robust protection for marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction, including a framework for establishing marine protected areas and reserves in the high seas. The High Seas Alliance is committed to working with States towards the quick adoption, ratification and implementation of a new and robust treaty to protect the world’s ocean beyond national jurisdiction.