NICE, France: World leaders descend on the French Riviera on Sunday ahead of a high-level summit to tackle a deepening crisis in the oceans driven by overfishing, climate change and pollution. The United Nations says oceans face an “emergency” and leaders gathering in Nice will be under pressure to commit much-needed money and stronger protections for the ailing seas and the people that depend on them. The UN Ocean Conference must try to turn a corner as nations feud over deep-sea mining, plastic litter and exploitative fishing, against a backdrop of wider geopolitical tensions.

ÉDITORIAL. La troisième Conférence des Nations unies sur l’océan se tiendra à Nice, du 9 au 13 juin, en présence de 60 chefs d’Etat ou de gouvernement, sans les Etats-Unis. Même…

NICE, France: World leaders descend on the French Riviera on Sunday ahead of a high-level summit to tackle a deepening crisis in the oceans driven by overfishing, climate change…

Delegates including heads of state, scientists, and environmental advocates are expected in Nice this week to confront growing threats to the ocean.

World leaders, scientists, and advocates gather in Nice to confront ocean threats and push for marine protection.

Governments and civil society organizations from around the world are gathering in Nice, France, this week for the UN Ocean Conference. The third such meeting since 2017, it comes…

NICE: United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday the world could not let the deepest oceans “become the wild west,” at the start in France of a global summit…

Two thirds of our oceans are ‘areas beyond national jurisdiction – that’s half our planet’.

World leaders at a United Nations conference in France now call for an end to ocean-plundering activity with a global agreement likely on the horizon.

Speaking at France summit, António Guterres called for bold pledges to stop deep sea from becoming ‘wild west’