"FISHERIES"

Transforming the way we produce, distribute and consume food offers a unique opportunity to curb greenhouse emissions, but investments are urgent to scale up the solutions available, says Kaveh Zahedi, head of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations climate division, ahead of the most important climate summit of the year, the forthcoming 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28). FAO

A two-day meeting of senior trade officials concluded at the World Trade Organization with encouraging signs that negotiators in Geneva will have the political backing to achieve outcomes at their upcoming 13th Ministerial Conference early next year. WTO

In Nigeria, aquaculture is proving its extraordinary potential to create business and employment opportunities, including jobs for women and young people. FAO

World leaders gathered at the UN High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development in New York to present solutions to unlock better financing and tackle the divide that has emerged between developed and developing countries. UNIFEED

Addressing the Ocean Race Summit, Marine biologist Sylvia Earle, said "we are just beginning to recognize that we are ocean creatures,” adding “take away the ocean - we can't survive, neither can the whales or coral reefs, or anything else.” UNIFEED / FILE

With 15 months remaining to the elections scheduled to end the transitional period in South Sudan, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the country, Nicholas Haysom, warned the Security Council that “time is of the essence”. UNIFEED

The world is far from meeting its climate goals, seriously undermining efforts to tackle hunger, poverty and ill-health, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said. UNTV CH

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Administrator, Achim Steiner, announced that “at 6 pm local time the pumps were turned off on the FSO Safer,” and said, “we have reached a milestone and perhaps one of the most significant preventative actions taken in recent years.” UNIFEED

The United Nations successfully completed the transfer of more than 1.1 million barrels of oil from the FSO Safer supertanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast, preventing the immediate threat of a massive spill off Yemen’s Red Sea coast. BOSKALIS / UNDP / UNITED NATIONS

As July 2023 became the hottest month ever recorded, and just months away from COP 28, being held in Dubai from 30 November to 12 December, United Nations officials spoke about the need to step up climate action and climate justice. UNIFEED / FILE