Lisbon, Portugal, 1 July – The five-day UN Ocean Conference ended today with more than 150 countries collectively agreeing to scale up science-based and innovative actions to address the ocean emergency. This agreement, together with bold…
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30 June - 20 November 2022, All day
Blue Action Fund (hereafter ‘Blue Action’) opens Call for Proposals focussing on the ‘Wider Caribbean Sea’. This Call for Proposals is part of a continuing series of such Calls by Blue Action providing individual grants to NGOs for conservation…
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD), and the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF) of the Republic of Korea (ROK) join forces to co-organize a side event with a focus on finding…
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Ninety seven percent of Earth’s water is ocean and that’s where most of life on the planet is. We need to protect our ocean as if our lives depend on it, because they do.
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29 June 2022, 16:04 - 17:15 PM WEST
This event will highlight actions and progress made by the Republic of Korea and the UNDP Ocean Innovation Challenge in catalysing technology, policy and other innovations to reduce marine pollution.
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29 June 2022, 16:00 - 17:15 PM WEST
This event will highlight actions and progress made by the Republic of Korea and the UNDP Ocean Innovation Challenge in catalysing technology, policy and other innovations to reduce marine pollution.
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Our ocean is life. She generates the air we breathe, puts food on our table, sustains our economy, absorbs excess carbon emissions and is our greatest ally in the fight against climate change. But she is under threat: Unsustainable human activities…
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Commits to support recovery of nearly $1 trillion in annual socioeconomic losses caused by ocean mismanagement
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27 June - 1 July 2022, All day
The Ocean Conference, co-hosted by the Governments of Kenya and Portugal, comes at a critical time as the world is seeking to address the many of the deep-rooted problems of our societies laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic and which will require…
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Lisbon, 27 June 2022 – Movie star and ocean activist Jason Momoa was designated the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Advocate for Life Below Water today at a major conference mobilizing global support for an ocean besieged by the triple planetary…
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As the world prepares for the UN Ocean Conference, the FAO/GEF Coastal Fisheries Initiative takes a look at this vital science-to-policy tool, which turns 10 this year
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10 questions with Ambassador Peter Thomson - Ahead of the UN Ocean Conference, we check in with the UN Secretary-General’s Special Enjoy for the Ocean.
