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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Events
SEE MOREResumed Review Conference on the UN Fish Stocks Agreement 2023
31 January 2023
New York City, US
27th Session of the International Seabed Authority Assembly and Council (Part III)
31 October - 11 November 2022
TBA
World Maritime Day 2022
30 September 2022
worldwide
68th Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC68)
3-10 September 2022
Slovenia
5th International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC5)
2-8 September 2022
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Conference on BBNJ (BBNJ IGC-5)
15-26 August 2022
New York City, US