More than sixty governments have now ratified The treaty is officially known as the High Seas Treaty or Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement. Less than 1% of the High Seas The High Seas are the huge areas of ocean beyond any country's national waters. The Global Ocean Treaty has the power to change everything. If fully implemented, the Treaty could establish the largest network of ocean sanctuaries in history, covering over a third of our global oceans. Decades in the makingThe very first Greenpeace briefing on the need for an ocean treaty was written back in 2005.