Oceans & Coasts
activities related to the sustainable management of the ocean, marine resources and coastal areas; includes efforts that recognize the ocean’s contribution to the climate change challenge as a carbon sink, as well as the interactions between climate change and the ocean, such as carbon dioxide-driven acidification, impacts of rising ocean temperatures, carbon storage in the ocean seabed, and ocean fertilization; with regard to biodiversity and ocean health, activities related to fisheries and aquaculture such as dwindling fish stocks and illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, pollution and debris, and biodiversity and ecosystem protection and conservation, including the impacts of invasive species; also includes activities related livelihoods and the “blue economy.”
news
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policy briefs
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More Than Just a Plan B: Climate Change Adaptation and Potential Role of Trade
Events
SEE MOREUNEA-7
8-12 December 2025
Nairobi, Kenya
IUCN World Conservation Congress
9-15 October 2025
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Third UN Ocean Conference
9-13 June 2025
Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote D'Azur, France
Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on Plastic Pollution Treaty
2-6 June 2025
Ecuador[tentative]
Plastic Pollution INC-5
25 November - 1 December 2024
Busan, Pusan-Jikhalsi, Republic of Korea
29th Session of the International Seabed Authority Assembly and Council (Part III)
28 October - 8 November 2024
Kingston, Jamaica