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
Driven by the Ocean Panel’s commitment on sustainable ocean food, the science-industry initiative Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship (SeaBOS), announces that for the first time in the history of seafood production, ten of the largest seafood companies in the world have committed to a set of time-bound and measurable goals that will ensure the industry […]
Ocean Panel country member Japan passes a new law which will prevent IUU-sourced seafood from entering their market. The law aligns Japan with the European Union and the United States of America’s positions on IUU fishing, marking a pivotal moment as the world’s three largest seafood consumers all definitively bar products sourced by IUU fishing […]
Leaders of Australia, Canada, Chile, Fiji, Ghana, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, Palau and Portugal commit to sustainably manage nearly 30 million sq km of their national waters by 2025. Leaders put a healthy ocean at the top of the global policy agenda to accelerate economic recovery. LONDON (December 2, 2020)—The […]
Responding to the Ocean Panel’s new ocean action agenda, the Ocean Renewable Energy Action Coalition (OREAC) publishes a new report which sets out how governments and industry can work together to unlock the global potential of offshore wind.
On World Ocean Day, the Ocean Renewable Energy Action Coalition (OREAC) announces its vision for 1,400 GW of offshore wind by 2050 to drive decarbonisation and green recovery from the COVID-19 crisis in this press release published by Global Wind Energy Council and republished by Orsted, MingYang Smart Energy, JERA, and CWind, amongst others. OREAC […]
WRI media advisory announces the launch of the Blue Paper ‘Leveraging Multi-Target Strategies to Address Plastic Pollution in the Context of an Already Stressed Ocean’.
WRI press release announces the launch of the Blue Paper ‘Critical Habitats and Biodiversity: Inventory, Thresholds and Governance’.
PRESS RELEASE Madrid, December 6th, 2019: Unabated climate change could cause coral reef tourism revenue losses of over 90%, while some West African countries are forecast to see fish stocks decline by 85% (1), according to a first-of-its-kind analysis2 into country-by-country climate impacts on key ocean sectors, published today as world leaders gather at the […]
This WRI press release announces the launch of the Special Report ‘The Ocean as a Solution for Climate Change: Five Opportunities for Action’.
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 […]
