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 on the seas. World leaders are attending the UN Ocean Conference in Nice as nations tussle over contentious rules on mining the seabed for critical minerals and the terms of a global treaty on plastic pollution. US President Donald Trump has brought urgency to the debate around deep-sea mining, moving to fast-track US exploration in international waters and sidestepping global efforts to regulate the nascent sector.

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…

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’.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres spoke at the start of the UN Oceans Conference in Nice, France.

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’

The world has come together in France this week to look for a way to save our oceans. It is no doubt an important mission, but it seems like an impossible one in our world of…