{"id":2048,"date":"2019-06-21T06:30:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2019-06-21T06:31:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:31:06","slug":"world-oceans-day-is-celebrated-on-8th-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/world-oceans-day-is-celebrated-on-8th-june\/","title":{"rendered":"World Oceans Day is celebrated on 8th June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

World Oceans Day<\/strong> is celebrated on 8th\nJune<\/strong> every year. The day was declared in 2008<\/strong>. June 8 was\nmarked as it marks the day when it was first proposed in 1992 by Canada’s International Centre\nfor Ocean Development (ICOD) and the Ocean Institute of Canada (OIC) <\/strong>at\nthe Earth Summit<\/strong>, UN Conference on Environment and\nDevelopment (UNCED) <\/strong>in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<\/strong>
\nThe Conference supported the implementation\nof Sustainable\nDevelopment Goal (SDG) 14<\/strong> of the 2030 Agenda for\nSustainable Development: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and\nmarine resources for sustainable development.

Theme\n2019:<\/strong>
\nThe theme for the year 2019 is Gender and Oceans<\/strong>. The\ntheme is to build greater ocean and gender literacy and to discover possible\nways to promote gender equality in ocean-related activities such as marine\nscientific research, fisheries, labour at sea, migration by sea and human\ntrafficking, as well as policy-making and management.
\nThe importance of gender equality is being\nrecognized increasingly for the effective conservation and sustainable use of\noceans, seas, and marine resources. Yet very little data and researches are\navailable on these issues. Serious action towards gender equality and the\nempowerment of women and girls is still needed in all ocean-related sectors to\nachieve Sustainable\nDevelopment Goal 5.<\/strong>

Plastic\nPollution:<\/strong>
Mar\u00eda\nFernanda Espinosa,<\/strong> the\nPresident of the General Assembly launched Play It Out <\/strong>which is a global\ncampaign against plastic pollution. Decades of overuse of single-use plastics <\/strong>has\ncaused a huge menace to the marine lives. 13,000,000 tonnes of plastic leak\ninto the ocean every year which kills 100,000 marine animals annually. <\/strong>
\nWhile most plastics are expected to remain\nintact for decades or centuries after use. These plastics erode and ends up as\nmicro-plastics, consumed by fish and other marine wildlife, quickly making\ntheir way into the global food chain\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World Oceans Day is celebrated on 8th June every year. The day was declared in 2008. June 8 was marked as it marks the day when it was first proposed in 1992 by Canada’s International Centre for Ocean Development (ICOD) and the Ocean Institute of Canada (OIC) at the Earth Summit, UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The Conference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}