BAHRAIN has reiterated its support for international efforts to combat climate change and protect natural resources, including seas and oceans.
Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture Minister Wael Al Mubarak headed the nation’s delegation to the third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice, France, which opened yesterday with a call by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to world leaders to ratify a treaty that would allow nations to establish protected marine areas in international waters, warning that human activity was destroying ocean ecosystems .