Climate Change Challenges
This Ocean Panel video highlights climate change challenges, and five opportunities for ocean action.
Ocean-Based Climate Action Could Deliver a Fifth of Emissions Cuts Needed to Limit Temperature Rise to 1.5°C
This WRI press release announces the launch of the Special Report ‘The Ocean as a Solution for Climate Change: Five Opportunities for Action’.
Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Could Deliver 21 Percent of Needed Greenhouse Gas Reductions, Study Finds
Newsweek features the Special Report ‘The Ocean as a Solution for Climate Change: Five Opportunities for Action’.
A New Narrative for the Ocean
Ocean Panel Expert Group co-chair Jane Lubchenco and member Steve Gaines discuss a new narrative for the ocean in this Science article.
6 Recent Signs of Hope for the Ocean
Kristian Teleki, WRI’s Director for the Sustainable Ocean Initiative highlights new positive developments for the ocean, including the creation of the Ocean Panel in this WRI Insights blog.
Video Message from Prime Minister Erna Solberg to World Ocean Summit 2019
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 […]
CVF Virtual Summit Panel – A New Sustainable Ocean Economy: Advancing Ocean and Climate Action
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.
Developing a Global Action Plan for a Sustainable Ocean Economy
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 […]
The World Needs a Sustainable Ocean Economy
Ocean Panel members and hosts of the Our Ocean conferences, Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo, President of Indonesia (host 2018), Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway (host 2019), and Tommy Remengesau, Jr., President of the Republic of Palau (host 2020) call on the need for a sustainable ocean economy in this op-ed published by the Thomson Reuters […]
Heads of Government Unite for the Ocean and People Who Depend on It
PRESS RELEASE 12 world leaders form new High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy NEW YORK (SEPTEMBER 24, 2018) — A group of world leaders came together in New York City today to form a panel that will assess the value of Ocean goods and services in economic planning and support the sustainable use […]
