Five Priorities for a Sustainable Ocean Economy
Ocean Panel Expert Group co-chairs Jane Lubchenco, Peter Haugan & Mari Pangestu comment on the Ocean Panel’s new ocean action agenda in this Nature comment.
14 World Leaders Commit to 100 Percent Sustainable Ocean Management to Solve Global Challenges; Call for More Countries to Join
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 […]
7 Ways to Bridge the Blue Finance Gap
Blue Paper authors Rashid Sumaila and Melissa Walsh discuss ways to bridge the blue finance gap, featuring insights from the Blue Paper ‘Ocean Finance: Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Ocean Economy’. Republished in Hellenic Shipping News.
The Wealth of Oceans: New Research Shines a Light on Ocean Accounting
The Economist World Ocean Initiative features the Blue Paper ‘National Accounting for the Ocean and Ocean Economy’.
The Future of Food from the Sea
Nature publishes an adapted version of the Blue Paper ‘The Future of Food from the Sea’.
The Shadow Blue Economy: Tackling Organised Crime in Fisheries
This webinar launches the Blue Paper ‘Organised Crime in the Fisheries Sector’ which presents the current state of knowledge on organised crime in the fisheries sector in the context of the pursuit of a sustainable ocean economy and offers practical recommendations to address this global challenge. Featuring Siri Bjune (United Nations Office on Drugs and […]
Approaches to Combatting Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
Nature Food publishes an adapted version of the Blue Paper ‘Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Associated Drivers’.
Seafood2030 to Investigate the Issues Shaping Seafood’s Sustainable Future
Seafood Source features the Blue Paper ‘The Future of Food from the Sea’.
Conserving the Foundation of Life in the Ocean
The Economist World Ocean Initiative features the Blue Paper ‘The Ocean Genome: Conservation and the Fair, Equitable and Sustainable Use of Marine Genetic Resources’.
Joint Statement on the Role of a Sustainable Ocean Economy in a Post-COVID-19 World
Today, we celebrate World Oceans Day under unprecedented circumstances, as the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated health and economic challenges. We, the members of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, propose the ocean as a solution to a more resilient and prosperous world. This will be more important than […]
