Emmanuel Macron will be broadcasting live from Nice on France 2 this Tuesday evening to discuss oceans and the environment.

A structure several meters high has been deployed in recent days on the Quai Rauba Capeu in Nice, at the foot of Château Hill, overlooking the Mediterranean. An XXL television studio, with the Bay of Angels as a backdrop, for a France 2 special broadcast on ocean protection, as the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference has been taking place since Monday. President Emmanuel Macron was the guest this Tuesday evening on the program "Urgence océan, un sommet pour tout changer," hosted by Léa Salamé and Hugo Clément. Facing him, several personalities, including astronaut Thomas Pesquet, three-time Olympic track and field champion Marie-José Pérec, photographer, diver, and naturalist biologist Laurent Ballesta, and glaciologist Heïdi Sevestre, challenged him on the issues of plastic pollution, fast fashion, overfishing, bottom trawling, and melting ice.

Asked to recall his memories, the Head of State described his first encounter with the sea as a child, "my own sea [the English Channel], in Marquenterre, in the Bay of Somme. I have memories of the tide, of shrimp fishing."

The President vigorously defended his ecological record, sometimes irritated at being contradicted, and presented the issues at stake at the Nice summit: marine protected areas, the BBNJ (Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction) treaty on the protection of the high seas.

"Just because a co-owner doesn't want to pay doesn't mean the work can't be done." It was with this comparison that Emmanuel Macron dismissed the absence, at UNOC, of ​​Donald Trump, President of the United States, the world's leading maritime power.

The evening also featured a heated exchange between Hugo Clément and the President over former Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, a strategic advisor at Shein, the testimony of Anne-Sophie Roux, a whistleblower on seabed mining, and a message from Chief Raoni of Brazil.