International Cooperation

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) Assembly closed its meeting on Friday, 28 July, marking the end of intense deep-sea mining negotiations in Kingston, Jamaica over the past three weeks. With mounting pressure from governments, scientists, the business community, and civil society to halt deep-sea mining, the respective meetings of the...

Since Monday, the 10th of July, countries have continued their deliberations at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Kingston, Jamaica, on the potential approval of the controversial practice of deep-sea mining. The meeting of the Council, which is made up of 36 States, concludes on July 21st. Subsequently, the Assembly,...

The Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), an environmental treaty of the United Nations, publishes a technical report to avoid, reduce and mitigate underwater noise pollution prepared by an OceanCare underwater noise expert.

The second meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) for a global agreement to end plastic pollution concluded today at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris with civil society organizations appealing to governments not to allow the use of dilatory tactics and procedural questions to set back progress and lower the...

Briefing for INC Delegates on the relevance of the BBNJ agreement for the future international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (ILBI).

Joint Breakfast Briefing for the Second Round of Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC2) by Cook Islands, Norway, EIA, SPREP, University of Wollongong and OceanCare.