Global Sustainable Fishing Initiative Agreed by 14 Countries
The Guardian covers the launch of the Ocean Panel’s new ocean action agenda. Republished in Yahoo news.
Coastal Development: Resilience, Restoration and Infrastructure Requirements
This webinar launches the Blue Paper ‘Coastal Development: Resilience, Restoration and Infrastructure Requirements’ which highlights the trends in coastal behaviour and comments on the dynamics that weaken and strengthen coastlines, including infrastructure, shipping, tourism and future development plans. Moderated by Kristian Teleki (WRI) and featuring Australia’s Sherpa Russel Reichelt as well as Blue Paper authors […]
Financing for a Sustainable Ocean Economy: High-Level Dialogue
This webinar discusses the importance of ocean finance and investment into a sustainable ocean economy to set us on the path to economic recovery in a post COVID-19 world. This event also presents key insights from the Blue Paper ‘Ocean Finance: Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Ocean Economy’ which examines how the next generation […]
The Human Relationship with Our Ocean Planet
This webinar launches the Blue Paper ‘The Human Relationship with our Ocean Planet’ which identifies the diverse relationships with the ocean that contribute to human wellbeing and recommends actions that can help ensure the creation of a fair and equitable sustainable ocean economy that recognises these relationships. Moderated by Heather Koldewey (Zoological Society of London) […]
What Has the Ocean Ever Done for Us? Humanizing the Sustainable Ocean Economy Narrative
Blue Paper author Nireka Weeratunge discusses the diverse set of relationships that we have with the ocean in this WRI Insights blog, featuring insights from the Blue Paper ‘The Human Relationship with our Ocean Planet’.
Modifying National Accounts for Sustainable Ocean Development
Nature Sustainability publishes an adapted version of the Blue Paper ‘National Accounting for the Ocean and Ocean Economy’.
How Four Investments Could Accelerate the Blue Economy
The Economist World Ocean Initiative features the Economic Analysis Special Report ‘A Sustainable Ocean Economy for 2050: Approximating its Benefits and Costs’.
A Transition to Sustainable Ocean Governance
Nature Comms publishes an adapted version of the Blue Paper ‘The Ocean Transition: What to Learn from System Transitions’.
Clean Energy Can’t Come at the Expense of the Ocean—and It Doesn’t Have To
Lisa Levin, Peter Haugan, Ines Aguiar Branco and Katie Flanagan discuss how to ensure that the clean energy transition proceeds in a way that doesn’t come at the expense of the ocean. Republished in the China Dialogue
Webinar: The Link Between Ocean Energy and Mineral Resources
Supporting Ocean Panel member Peter Thomson; Blue Paper authors Peter Haugan, Lisa A. Levin, Diva Amon; and Advisory Network member Francisco Boshell discuss actions that can help ensure that the scaling up of ocean-based renewable energy, and decisions taken about deep-seabed mining, maintain ocean health and achieve a sustainable ocean economy.
