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S’pore oceans ambassador makes Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people of 2024 Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.

Mrs Rena Lee had helped broker a historic agreement that lays the groundwork for international collaboration. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Events that rocked Singapore and the world will surely make 2023 a reference point in history – for better and for worse. Here are the commentaries that captured the past 12 months.

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It also marks a victory for multilateralism and United Nations.

"In this new troubled world, it is all the more important for us to close ranks. Divided, we stand no chance," says PM Lee in a parliamentary speech.

“The draft agreement is not perfect but it is a solid foundation that gives us the tools we need to address the urgent threats that are facing our oceans,” said Ms Rena Lee.

The new global high seas biodiversity treaty finally offers binding protections to marine life across huge swaths of the open ocean and helps stem climate change and biodiversity collapse.

Rena Lee, the Singaporean who presided over negotiations thanked "the dedicated efforts of countless persons", but said there was still much work to be done.

Delegates at the United Nations have agreed on a historic international treaty to protect biodiversity on the high seas, a deal years in the making. The agreement is critical to reaching another U.N. goal: protecting 30 percent of the ocean by 2030. Liz Karan with the Pew Charitable Trusts joins John Yang to discuss the negotiations.