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IUCN World Conservation Congress adopts moratorium on Deep-Sea Mining

by OceanCare | 10/09/2021 | News

A big win for the protection of our oceans: Motion 069 on “Protection of deep-ocean ecosystems and biodiversity through a moratorium on seabed mining” was adopted at the International Union for Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress (IUCN WCC) with an...

Is the European Union doing enough to protect marine biodiversity in the high seas treaty negotiations?

by OceanCare | 09/08/2021 | Blog

Spain must step up and get the EU to revise its worrying stance on environmental impact assessment of activities that may cause transboundary pollution in the negotiations on the UN treaty on the governance of the high seas. Spain, as a country with a long maritime...

Can Whale Poo Help Save the Planet

by OceanCare | 06/07/2021 | Media Release

Whales were hunted nearly to extinction. A new report shows how important they are for healthy oceans. They can even help mitigate climate change. Washington, DC / Waedenswil, Switzerland, July 6, 2021. The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was founded to...

Good news for the climate, the Mediterranean Sea and the Cetaceans Migration Corridor in Spain

by OceanCare | 27/05/2021 | News

Spanish media have just revealed that Repsol, Spain’s leading oil company, will stop producing oil at the “Casablanca” oil platform, located off the coast of Tarragona, in the Mediterranean, next month of June. This oil rig is located close to the...

Shipping Swiss CO2 to Norway

by OceanCare | 19/05/2021 | Blog

~Ewoud Lauwerier Not a week goes by without a new ecomodernist project being presented as a revolutionary step towards sustainability. Announced with aplomb, it conveniently offers the most recent technological solution for the transition to a better world. In...

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