The International Seabed Authority will continue trying to balance pressures to accelerate or delay deep-sea mining activities in areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.

The Seventh Global Conference on Climate and SDG Synergies will facilitate in-depth peer learning on aligning national climate commitments and SDG priorities as well as strengthening mutually reinforcing policies across climate, development, and environment agendas.

Delegates will discuss implementation challenges that arose after making amendments to the Basel Convention's control annexes to tackle e-waste and plastic waste.

Participants welcomed growing recognition of the role of the Ocean in climate ambition, and several expressed optimism that momentum arising from the Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue may show the way to tangible action and commitments at COP 31.