Csaba Kőrösi, President of the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, addresses the 17th plenary meeting of the resumed General Assembly Eleventh Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly on Ukraine. Photo: JOHN LAMPARSKI / NurPhoto / AFP
Nauru's President has told the global leaders at the UN that the world will miss out on decarbonising the planet if deep sea mining does not start immediately.
David Adeang is the first Pacific Island leader to take the podium at the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York this week.
RNZ Pacific's Tiana Haxton reports.