Oceans and Law of the Sea

A General Assembly-mandated publication on marine geospatial information management has been released by the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea of the Office of Legal Affairs.

New estimates indicate that nearly 67 million people in Eastern Africa are now in need of humanitarian assistance, accounting for more than 20 per cent of the total number of people in need globally. Humanitarians continue to provide assistance to millions of people.

The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its sixty-second session from 7 October to 22 November.

The representatives of small island developing States and low-lying countries today urged immediate international action to combat sea-level rise — a global crisis threatening the lives and livelihoods of 1 billion people worldwide — during the General Assembly’s inaugural high-level meeting on the issue.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the opening of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on addressing the existential threats posed by sea level rise, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for World Maritime Day, observed on 26 September:

NEW YORK, 23 August (Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea) — The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf held its sixty-first session at United Nations Headquarters, from 8 July to 23 August 2024. The plenary parts of the session were held from 5 to 9 and from 19 to 23 August. The remainder of the session was devoted to the technical examination of submissions at the premises of the Division, including geographic information systems laboratories and other technical facilities.

The environment and its sustainability is in the spotlight at this year’s multilateral Treaty Event at the UN Headquarters from 19 to 22 September 2023, held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly high-level general debate.

On the sidelines of the seventy-eighth United Nations General Debate, 85 States and 1 international organization undertook a total of 102 actions at the annual Treaty Event which ended today.

The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its sixty-first session from 8 July to 23 August at United Nations Headquarters in New York.