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: The Republic of Chile Receives Peter Benchley Ocean Award for Excellence in National Leadership
WRI podcast featuring Peter Thomson, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean; Vidar Helgesen, Norway’s Ocean Panel Sherpa; Jane Lubchenco, Ocean Panel Expert Group co-chair; and Mary Ruckelshaus, Blue Paper author, on the transition to a Sustainable Ocean Economy.
Olai Uludong, Ocean Panel Sherpa for Palau; Vidar Helgesen, Ocean Panel Sherpa for Norway; Peter Thomson, honorary Ocean Panel member; Jane Lubchenco, Expert Group co-chair; and Mary Ruckelshaus, Blue Paper co-lead author share reflections on the road ahead for building a sustainable ocean economy, featuring insights from Blue Paper ‘The Ocean Transition: What to Learn […]
On World Ocean Day, Chile’s Sherpa Waldemar Coutts highlights the importance of the ocean in a post-pandemic recovery in this op-ed published on Pais Circular.
On World Ocean Day, the leaders of Norway and Palau argue that it’s time we look to the ocean for post-COVID resilience, sustainability and prosperity in this op-ed published in Project Syndicate and republished in Eco-Business, East Africa Business Week , The Gulf Times, The Jordan Times, Khaleej Times, and the Irish Examiner, amongst others.
On World Ocean Day, Hans Jacob Frydenlund, Ambassador of Norway to India, and Ratan P Watal, Member Secretary, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, Government of India, highlight the need for concerted action to ensure a more sustainable and integrated approach to the ocean in this op-ed published on Hindustan Times.
Tamaki Tsukada, Ocean Panel Sherpa for Japan and Jenna Jambeck, Ellie Moss, and Brajesh Kr Dubey, authors of the Blue Paper ‘Leveraging Multi-Target Strategies to Address Plastic Pollution in the Context of an Already Stressed Ocean’ discuss actions to tackle plastic and other sources of ocean pollution in this webinar hosted by WRI.
Ricardo Serrão Santos, Ocean Panel Sherpa for Portugal and Vidar Helgesen, Ocean Panel Sherpa for Norway we well as Minhan Dai, Jan-Gunnar Winther, Marie Antonette Juinio-Meñez, and Amy Trice, authors of the Blue Paper ‘Integrated Ocean Management’ discuss how an Integrated Ocean Management approach offers the tools to enable a more balanced approach to the […]
In this op-ed on EFE Verde, Waldemar Coutts, Chile’s Sherpa and Ambassador to Norway and Iceland reflects on how the protection of marine resources in the high seas is vital to human and planetary well-being, as well as the importance of protecting biodiversity and the High Seas Treaty in a post-COVID world. (Scroll to the […]
Martha Delgado, Ocean Panel Sherpa for Mexico and Octavio Aburto, Blue Paper lead author, discuss the pressing challenges, opportunities for action, and success stories in ocean governance and management, featuring insights from the Blue Paper ‘Critical Habitats and Biodiversity: Inventory, Thresholds and Governance’ in this Spanish-only webinar co-hosted by WRI Mexico and the Mexican Ministry […]
Olai Uludong, Ocean Panel Sherpa for Palau and Robert Blasiak, Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Siva Thambisetty, Rachel Wynberg, and Alex Rogers, Blue Paper authors, discuss how to protect the unique genetic diversity of the ocean and how to distribute the benefits that come from exploring the ocean genome, featuring insights from the Blue Paper ‘The Ocean Genome: […]
