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The Fossil of the Day Award is a daily award given during the annual UNFCCC COP to those countries who “are the best at being the worst and doing the most to do the least”.
New Zealand orange roughy has lost its sustainability certification from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) today.
As the ISA now begins preparations for its 29th session in 2024, key issues beyond the mining code still remain unsolved.
30/10/23 - This week countries will convene in Kingston, Jamaica for the International Seabed Authority’s Council meeting to negotiate a mining code that, if agreed and adopted, would open up our ocean to the largest mining operation humanity has ever seen.
Read an opinion piece by DSCC Director Sian Owen calling for the protection of seamounts and other vulnerable marine ecosystems in European waters.
Today activists from around the world joined forces in a joint protest against Norway’s plans to open 281,000 square kilometers of its ocean – an area larger than the size of the UK
NAFO’s 45th Annual Meeting achieved progress in the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems and in advancing their work on the ecosystem approach to fisheries to prevent ecosystem overfishing, including by taking first steps to incorporate climate change into fisheries management.
The ISA Assembly meeting concludes today, ending three weeks of intense deep-sea mining negotiations in which no mining code was agreed or adopted in a fresh blow to prospective deep-sea mining companies.
Statement on the Adoption of the High Seas Biodiversity Treaty.
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) renewed its calls for a moratorium on deep-sea mining after a scientific paper was released warning of “alarmingly high” concentrations of radiation in polymetallic nodules.