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
Martha Delgado, Mexico’s Ocean Panel Sherpa and Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights reflects on how the ocean can be a solution in pandemic recovery in this op-ed published on Excelsior. (Spanish only)
Ruth Kagia, Kenya’s Ocean Panel Sherpa and Deputy Chief of Staff (Policy & Strategy) calls on African nations to unite against illegal fishing in this op-ed published in The Africa Report.
Tommy Remengesau Jr., President of Palau and Ocean Panel member reflects on how ocean degradation falls heaviest on those least responsible in this op-ed published on The Sydney Morning Herald.
Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative (IOJI) and WRI Indonesia convene a seminar to present the Blue Paper ‘Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Associated Drivers’ featuring a keynote by the Indonesian Maritime Security Agency (BAKAMLA) and Norway’s Ambassador to Indonesia, Vegard Kaale.
President Faure of Seychelles together with President Kenyatta of Kenya (Ocean Panel member) and President Gnassingbe of Togo convene a high-level side event on Africa’s Blue Economy at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The event released the Blue Paper ‘Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Associated Drivers’ and featured interventions from Prime […]
Taholo Kami, Ocean Panel Sherpa for Fiji and Elena Ojea, Willow Battista and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Blue Paper contributing authors, discuss the impact of climate change across three key ocean sectors – reef tourism, wild capture fisheries, mariculture – and offer a set of solutions for decision-makers, featuring insights from the Blue Paper ‘The Expected Impacts […]
Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya and Ocean Panel member calls for accelerating sustainable development of seafood sectors in this op-ed published on PANAPRESS. (Behind a paywall and republished by Seafood Source.)
Eco-Business features the Special Report ‘The Ocean as a Solution for Climate Change: Five Opportunities for Action’.
Ocean Panel Co-Chairs Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway and Tommy Remengesau Jr., President of Palau urge us to look to the ocean for climate change solutions in this CNN Opinion piece.
Monday, 09/23/2019 | UN Headquarters, New York The second meeting of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy brought together the heads of government and state, their representatives from the 14 participating member countries, and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean to discuss progress made in 2019 and how the Panel […]
