DLMUNCS VI 2026

Topic

Decarbonizing International Shipping While Preserving Global Trade

About the committee

International shipping accounts for nearly 90% of global trade but also produces around 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. As demand for international commerce continues to grow, reducing emissions without disrupting global supply chains has become an increasingly urgent challenge. Delegates will examine carbon pricing for shipping, alternative fuels such as green ammonia and hydrogen, cleaner vessel technologies, international emissions standards, and support for developing economies that depend heavily on maritime trade. The committee must balance environmental sustainability with economic stability.

Chairs

• Jason Roh
• Jerry Yang
• YeonWoo(Emma) Shin

Countries

Topic

Financing Climate Adaptation for Developing Nations

About the committee

While climate change affects every country, developing nations often experience the greatest impacts despite contributing the least to global emissions. Limited financial resources make adaptation efforts increasingly difficult, widening existing inequalities and threatening long-term sustainable development. This committee will explore innovative climate finance mechanisms, public-private partnerships, resilience investments, capacity-building initiatives, debt-for-climate swaps, and improving access to international climate funds. Delegates should seek solutions that promote fairness while ensuring efficient use of financial resources.

Chairs

• Saera Kim
• Minseo (Annie) Kim
• Chloe Son

Countries

Topic

Building Climate-Resilient Agriculture to Ensure Global Food Security

About the committee

Climate change increasingly threatens global food production through droughts, floods, rising temperatures, and shifting weather patterns. Millions of people already face food insecurity as agricultural productivity declines in vulnerable regions. Ensuring sustainable food systems has become one of the defining global challenges of the coming decades. Delegates will examine strategies including climate-smart agriculture, sustainable irrigation, resilient crop development, soil conservation, reducing food waste, supporting smallholder farmers, and strengthening international cooperation on agricultural technology. The committee must balance environmental sustainability with the need to feed a growing global population.

Chairs

• Mihini Edirisinghe
• claire lee
• TAEHEE KIM

Countries

Topic

Establishing Global Standards to Reduce Plastic Pollution and Microplastics

About the committee

Plastic pollution has become a major environmental challenge, affecting oceans, freshwater systems, wildlife, and human communities. Microplastics are especially difficult to address because they originate from numerous sources, including packaging, textiles, tires, and industrial processes. While many countries have introduced restrictions on single-use plastics, regulations differ significantly across borders. Delegates will consider how the international community can establish common standards for plastic production, consumption, recycling, and disposal. Key disagreements may include whether countries should impose mandatory production limits, how much responsibility should fall on manufacturers, and whether developing countries should receive financial and technological assistance to transition away from plastics.

Chairs

• Yuna Yang
• Sharanya Manoj
• Rael Lee

Countries

Topic

Developing Climate-Resilient Cities in Response to Rising Temperatures and Extreme Weather

About the committee

Cities are increasingly vulnerable to heatwaves, flooding, water shortages, and other consequences of climate change. Rapid urbanization can worsen these problems when housing, transportation, drainage systems, and public infrastructure are not designed for changing environmental conditions. Low-income communities are often particularly exposed to these risks. Delegates will explore strategies for making cities more resilient while ensuring that climate policies remain affordable and inclusive. Potential solutions include climate-resilient infrastructure, improved public transportation, urban green spaces, sustainable housing, flood-management systems, and updated construction standards. Delegates must also address the significant financial costs of transforming existing cities.

Chairs

• Darren Choi
• Sophia Seo

Countries

Topic

Managing the Economic and Social Consequences of the Global Transition Away from Fossil Fuels

About the committee

Moving away from fossil fuels could significantly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, but the transition also creates economic challenges. Millions of workers depend on industries connected to coal, oil, and natural gas, while several national economies rely heavily on fossil-fuel exports for government revenue. A rapid transition could therefore produce unemployment and economic instability if it is poorly managed. Delegates will consider how the international community can pursue a just transition that combines climate action with economic development and social protection. Proposals could include worker retraining programs, economic diversification, international transition funds, renewable-energy investment, and assistance for fossil-fuel-dependent developing economies. The committee must balance the urgency of reducing emissions with the economic realities faced by different countries.

Chairs

• Shinjini Gogia
• Elaine Jeong

Countries

Topic

Protecting Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites from Climate Change

About the committee

Climate change threatens important cultural and natural heritage sites through rising seas, wildfires, desertification, erosion, flooding, and extreme temperatures. Historical cities, archaeological sites, ecosystems, and monuments that have survived for centuries may face irreversible damage. Delegates must determine how the international community should protect vulnerable heritage while recognizing that governments have limited resources and competing priorities. Potential policies include international preservation funds, digital preservation, emergency restoration programs, stronger protection standards, and cooperation between scientists, governments, and local communities.

Chairs

• Sanghyeok Yun
• Siuh Shin

Countries

Topic

"Regulating the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Medical Diagnostics."

About the committee

As AI-driven tools rapidly enter clinical practice — from diagnostic imaging and drug discovery to triage algorithms and mental health chatbots — the World Health Organization faces urgent questions about patient safety, data privacy, algorithmic bias, and equitable access. Wealthier nations are deploying these technologies at scale while low- and middle-income countries risk being left behind or used as unregulated testing grounds. Delegates must confront the absence of a global regulatory framework: How should AI medical tools be validated and approved across borders? Who is liable when an algorithm causes harm? How can the WHO ensure that AI narrows rather than widens existing health inequities? This committee will work to establish international standards for the safe, ethical, and equitable integration of AI into health systems worldwide.

Chairs

• Abigail Cho
• Hailey Yeonju Lee
• Jaden Yang

Countries

Topic

"Regulating the Militarization and Commercial Exploitation of Cislunar Space."

About the committee

As state and private actors race to establish a permanent presence on and around the Moon, cislunar space has become the newest arena for strategic competition, resource claims, and unregulated activity. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty prohibits national appropriation and weapons of mass destruction in orbit, but it says little about lunar mining rights, military “support” infrastructure, orbital traffic management, or the growing role of corporations operating beyond any single nation’s jurisdiction. Delegates in UNOOSA must confront the widening gap between a decades-old legal framework and a rapidly commercializing frontier: How do we prevent conflict over finite lunar resources like water ice and helium-3? Who is liable when private missions collide or contaminate sites of scientific value? And can a binding governance regime balance the interests of established spacefaring powers, emerging space nations, and the private sector without stifling innovation? This committee challenges delegates to craft forward-looking policy for a domain where the rules have not yet caught up with the technology.

Chairs

• A mymun user
• Eleanor Park
• Steve Jung

Countries

Topic

"Preventing Climate-Driven Famine and Securing Food Access in Regions of Acute Environmental Crisis."

About the committee

Climate change has become one of the primary drivers of global hunger, pushing food systems past their breaking point in the world's most vulnerable regions. Prolonged droughts, catastrophic flooding, and shifting rainfall patterns are destroying harvests, killing livestock, and displacing millions of subsistence farmers, while conflict and economic instability compound the crisis. The World Food Programme now operates in an environment where climate shocks are no longer occasional emergencies but a permanent condition, straining humanitarian budgets and forcing impossible choices about which populations to feed. Without coordinated international action, hundreds of millions more people risk falling into acute food insecurity within the coming decade. This committee calls on delegates to design a durable framework for climate-resilient food security that moves beyond emergency relief toward long-term prevention. Delegates must confront difficult questions: how to fund anticipatory action before famines strike rather than after, how to build resilient local food systems in climate-fragile states, and how to fairly distribute responsibility between wealthy emitting nations and the low-income countries bearing the worst consequences. Debate will center on balancing immediate humanitarian obligations against sustainable investment, navigating the tension between donor priorities and recipient sovereignty, and ensuring that food aid strengthens rather than undermines local agriculture and markets.

Countries