Five real disputes.
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China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan all fish the same Northwest Pacific stocks with no binding shared quota. Squid and sardine catches have fallen double digits in under a decade as every fleet races to catch before the others do. There is no neutral body with the authority to set a single number everyone accepts.

The EU Emissions Trading System is the world's largest carbon market, but free allowances to heavy industry have repeatedly outpaced the bloc's 2030 reduction targets, weakening the price signal the entire system depends on. Reallocating the budget politically takes years of negotiation between member states and sectors.

Egypt depends on the Nile for the vast majority of its freshwater. Ethiopia continues filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam upstream. Over a decade of negotiations between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan has not produced a binding water-sharing agreement, and each new rainy season restarts the same standoff.

Starlink, OneWeb, Kuiper and Guowang are deploying tens of thousands of satellites into the same low-Earth-orbit shells with no shared traffic authority. A single major collision risks a Kessler cascade that could render parts of orbit unusable for decades. No operator wants to be the one who self-limits first.

Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Bolivia all hold sovereign rights over their share of the Amazon, while REDD+ carbon-credit financing for standing forest remains fragmented and inconsistently verified across borders, leaving the basin's biggest carbon sink under-financed relative to the deforestation pressure on it.