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#treaty 新闻
Here’s what you need to know about the first international agreement focused on protecting marine biodiversity in international waters.
Its industry would benefit from a plan to cut emissions, which the UN shipping regulator is due to finalise this year.
The Trump administration in the US has announced its intention to withdraw from the UN’s landmark climate treaty, alongside 65 other international bodies that “no longer serve American interests”.
The United Nations Environment Assembly takes place this week in Nairobi, at a time when wars, protectionist economic policies and global divisions are undermining nations’ ability to reach consensus on climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution – issues that require collective action.
#treaty 观点
As climate change and great-power rivalry intensify, oceans are emerging as a geopolitical frontier – testing whether diplomacy can manage rising tensions over shipping routes, seabed minerals and fishing grounds.
China wants to lead the climate agenda on its own terms – exporting clean tech and influence, while sidestepping tougher cuts and accountability.
COP30 in Belém, Brazil, must boost action on the Escazú Agreement to protect nature’s last line of defence.
As the world gathers in the Amazon, political headwinds and fading ambition test the limits of global climate cooperation.
政策和金融
What COP30 must do
#treaty 视频
More than 3 million have watched Sofia Ashraf’s 'Kodaikanal Won't' - based on American singer Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda' - which calls for Unilever to clean up a mercury-contaminated factory in India.
#treaty 播客
EB工作室
As a landmark treaty is thrashed out to tackle plastic pollution, the Eco-Business Podcast debates whether the world is ready to pay a premium for packaging that doesn't damage the planet.
#treaty 新闻发布稿
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
UNEP launches US$100 million programme to accelerate climate, nature action
United Nations Environment Programme
Resumed fifth session of negotiations on a global plastic pollution treaty opens in Geneva
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
What is the international agreement to protect the high seas and why is it important?
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)
GAIA calls for greater accountability, inclusiveness, transparency in Plastics Treaty Process
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
How the pact to protect the ozone layer is helping counter climate change
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
A regional agreement aims to save a tropical paradise in trouble
#treaty 研究
Plastic Credit Exchange (PCX)
How plastic credits are supporting the Global Plastics Treaty
WWF-Singapore
The business case for a UN treaty on plastic pollution
