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It’s only three weeks until the annual UN climate conference takes place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. World leaders, civil society and business rep...

Scientists and campaigners are calling for the ocean to play a leading role in the political decisions made at COP28, and in national climate plans

A United Nations conference warned on Friday, July 1, 2022, that measures needed to protect the world’s oceans are running late and urged countries to accelerate their implementation.

LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- A United Nations conference warned Friday that measures needed to protect the worlds oceans are running late and urged count

More than 6,000 senior officials, scientists and activists from more than 120 countries attended a five-day U.N. Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

[By Fermin Koop] It has taken more than 20 years, but government representatives at the World Tra...

Talks aimed at curbing harmful subsidies for fisheries concluded in Geneva in the first multilateral trade agreement the World Trade Organization (WTO) has struck in almost a decade. The body’s Twelfth Ministerial Conference (MC12) was scheduled for June 12–15, but overtime negotiations didn’t conclude until early June 17. It is the first time WTO members […]

The WTO was still pushing for a long-sought deal on curbing harmful fishing subsidies on Tuesday but some fear it could slip through the net. Some diplomats accused India of stifling agreement on a whole range of issues being thrashed out at the talks, including fisheries. Negotiations towards banni ..

Twenty years is a long time to talk about fish. But hopes that World Trade Organization (WTO) members would finally reach a meaningful agreement to ban subsidies that enable overfishing at the Ministerial Conference (MC12) this year were dashed Friday when organizers postponed the event indefinitely, due to concerns over the novel Omicron COVID-19 variant. […]