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None of the world’s challenges loom as large as climate change, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in his keynote address to the R20 Austrian World Summit in mid-May, reiterating his belief that global warming poses an “existential threat” to humanity.

A U.N. World Food Programme aid vessel was attacked off Hodeidah, the main port in Yemen, during the weekend and started a fire in the engine room. No injuries were reported as a result of the attack. The vessel was attacked following a delivery a shipment at Hodeidah, which is held by the Houthis.

Shipping is the most environmentally sound mode of transport, having the lowest carbon footprint per unit of cargo transported. Therefore, we are talking about an essential component of sustainable economic growth. But how does shipping industry contribute to achieving UN SDGs?

Climate change is moving much faster than we are and the Paris Agreement goal may become unattainable, unless accelerated action is taken by 2020 through enhanced political will, innovation and financing to cut emissions by at least 25% over the next two years, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned.

Governments should cease oil exploration in the fragile Arctic environment amid the rising threat of global warming, said Christiana Figueres, who was a former chef of the UN Climate Change Secretariat, when 200 countries signed the Paris agreement back in 2015.

UN-trained law enforcement units have intercepted huge shipments of illegal drugs being trafficked through seaports this year, under the Container Control Programme, jointly launched in 2003 by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Customs Organization.

On Friday 4 of May, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres visited the Headquarters of the IMO. Mr. Guterres highlighted the important contribution of IMO’s work towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. He also welcomed the recent adoption by IMO of an Initial Strategy to reduce GHG emissions from ships.

Covering more than 4,300 cities in 108 countries, pollution data presents an estimated 4.2 million deaths each year caused by air pollution. More than 90% of the victims come from low- and middle-income countries in Asia and Africa, followed by others in the Eastern Mediterranean region, Europe and the Americas.

A fire erupted at the Port of Hodeidah in Yemen, on Saturday March 31. The fire destroyed warehouses, which were filled with cooking fuel and food supplies. Fire trucks have not managed to extinguish the fire in the warehouses area, which workers said that it may have been caused by an electrical short circuit.

The video illustrates the work the all 18 Regional Seas programmes around the globe, launched in 1974, as one of UNEP’s most significant achievements, aiming to address accelerating degradation of the world’s oceans and coastal areas through a “shared seas” approach.