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As stated by UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, in the Africa Climate Summit last week, Africa must work together with developed countries, financial institutions, and technology companies to create a true African Renewable Energy Alliance.

The United Nations (UN) Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships, also known as the Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sale of Ships, was signed into law. IMO welcomed the signing of the Convention in a ceremony that took place in Beijing, the People's Republic of China, on 5 September.  

More than 1.1 million barrels of oil were transferred from the floating storage and offloading unit FSO Safer to a new tanker, the Yemen, on August 11, 2023.

After years of negotiations, the UN-led project to prevent a massive oil spill from the FSO Safer supertanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast began yesterday with the removal of more than 1 million barrels of oil from the decaying vessel. After years of negotiations, the United Nations with its contractor Boskalis’ SMIT Salvage announced that the UN-led project to prevent a massive oil spill from the FSO Safer supertanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast began yesterday with the removal of more than 1 million barrels of oil from the decaying vessel.

A UN-owned ship arrived off war-torn Yemen on 16th, for a risky operation to pump more than a million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker and prevent a catastrophic spill.

United Nations' Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin offering compromise in exchange for Black Sea Grain Initiative extension.

Ahead the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) 80th Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 80), industry association SEA-LNG calls on the IMO to regulate all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from shipping, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide on a full lifecycle, Well-to-Wake, basis.  

Civil society groups are calling on the IMO member states to urgently support halving climate pollution from ships by 2030 and reaching zero-emission by 2040, at the Intersessional Working Group on Greenhouse Gases next week.

On 19th June, the United Nations adopted the new oceans treaty on sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ).

On June 14th, a fishing boat transporting refugees hundreds of and migrants and refugees sank off Greece, resulting in 78 people dead and many missing.