Featured: Ocean Panel announces the ‘100% Alliance’, a new campaign that calls on all ocean and coastal states to commit to 100% sustainable ocean management.
Featured: The Ocean Panel publishes its second progress report.
Featured: Leaders Call for All Ocean States to Join Alliance For 100% Sustainable Ocean Management; Welcomes UAE as Newest Member
President Faure of Seychelles together with President Kenyatta of Kenya (Ocean Panel member) and President Gnassingbe of Togo convene a high-level side event on Africa’s Blue Economy at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The event released the Blue Paper ‘Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Associated Drivers’ and featured interventions from Prime […]
Christopher Costello and Reniel Cabral, Blue Paper lead authors of ‘The Future of Food from the Sea’ and ‘The Expected Impacts of Climate Change on the Ocean Economy’ present key findings in this event hosted by WRI.
Jane Lubchenco, Ocean Panel Expert Group co-chair and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, lead author of the Special Report ‘The Ocean as a Solution for Climate Change: Five Opportunities for Action’ present key findings in this webinar.
Taholo Kami, Ocean Panel Sherpa for Fiji and Elena Ojea, Willow Battista and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Blue Paper contributing authors, discuss the impact of climate change across three key ocean sectors – reef tourism, wild capture fisheries, mariculture – and offer a set of solutions for decision-makers, featuring insights from the Blue Paper ‘The Expected Impacts […]
Steve Gaines, Peter Haugan, and Manaswita Konar, authors of the Special Report ‘The Ocean as a Solution for Climate Change: Five Opportunities for Action’ discuss key findings and explore policies and innovations that could advance ocean-based strategies for climate change in this event, co-hosted by WRI and the Embassies of Chile, Fiji, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, […]
Monday, 09/23/2019 | UN Headquarters, New York The second meeting of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy brought together the heads of government and state, their representatives from the 14 participating member countries, and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean to discuss progress made in 2019 and how the Panel […]
At the opening of the World Ocean Summit 2019 in Abu Dhabi, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg welcomed participants via video message. PM Solberg and President of the Republic of Palau Tommy Remengesau, Jr. are co-chairs the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy. Solberg said: “The World Ocean Summit provides the place where […]
Olai Uludong, Ocean Panel Sherpa for Palau and Vidar Helgesen, Ocean Panel Sherpa for Norway, as well as Peter Thomson, honorary Ocean Panel member, discuss the urgent need to protect, produce and prosper from the ocean in the face of a changing climate in this Climate Vulnerable Forum Virtual Summit 2018 event.
On 20-21 November 2018, 150 ocean experts from more than 50 countries met to discuss critical science-based actions in response to the problems facing our ocean at the Science for Ocean Action Conference in Bergen, Norway. This report summarizes the action points proposed and refined by the experts at the conference, which was hosted by […]
On the eve of the Science for Ocean Actions Conference, the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy Expert Group met for the first time to review, and discuss relevant research, provide scientific input, and explore solutions to the key questions and issues currently being addressed by the High Level Panel. The newly formed […]
