There was a last-minute breakthrough in negotiations for a global ocean conservation treaty. With organizations such as Greenpeace praising it, I expect I would be pretty happy with it.

One issue where I might have expected bad decisions was that of control over "genetic resources" — scientific discoveries that could be made by studying the genes of ocean life. There have been demands for harmful policies that would declare countries to be the "owners" of genomes found in species found in those countries. That would be unjust.

I can't be sure from this article, but I think this treaty chooses a better approach, that would distribute some of the income from some sorts of activities to some poor countries. I see nothing wrong with that.