Dear President, dear Minister, dear friends,
Let me start by just following on the words of the Portuguese President and to apologize, on behalf of my generation, to your generation, in relation to the state of the oceans, the state of biodiversity and the state of climate change.
In my generation, those that were politically responsible -that is my case-, we were slow, or sometimes unwilling to recognize that things were getting worse and worse in these three dimensions: ocean, climate and biodiversity.