UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a speech at the event entitled “Time of Opportunity: Vigorously Advancing the Clean Energy Era” that the world is at the dawn of a new energy era.In this era, cheap, clean and abundant energy will provide the world with enormous economic opportunities.Fossil fuels are running out.A clean energy era is rising like the sun.

At a time of global competition to explore the seabed and mine high-value rare minerals, Leticia Carvalho, secretary general of the United Nations International Seabed Authority, warned that the deep sea belongs to all mankind, not any single country or enterprise.She called on all parties to work together to ensure that this huge potential resource is not exploited indiscriminately and that the deep sea is not reduced to a “wild land of disorderly mining”.