OceanCare Blog
Spain must co-Lead post-pandemic green economy recovery
In June 2018, a breath of fresh air came into the Spanish politics, an air, for the first time in many years, with a sweet green aroma. The new government, chaired by the Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE, social-democrats), placed the fight against climate change...
The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Certainly an obstacle, but it should not prevent further progress towards protecting the ocean.
The fourth and final intergovernmental conference on an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction...
Green New Human
Individuals aware of the climate and ecological breakdown Some months ago, OceanCare encouraged me to experiment freely with alternative ways of communicating some of the lessons I learned during my career as a marine conservation biologist. I came up with a set of...
Less ocean noise as a contribution to climate protection
Next Monday, 23 September 2019, hundreds of government representatives, diplomats, representatives of multilateral agreements and organisations, the private sector and civil society will gather in New York on the occasion of the Climate Action Summit convened by UN...
An ocean of change
I was born in Venice Lido, Italy, and as a child I often played on the beach with my mask and dipnet. At sea I found crabs, seahorses, starfish and other treasures that fascinated me. This passion for the sea settled in my heart. At the age of 22 I began to board oceanographic and other vessels to study Mediterranean cetaceans.
Fierce urgency of now – Milestone agreement for ocean conservation.
On March 25th 2019 member states of the United Nations reconvened for the second intergovernmental conference (IGC2) aimed at adopting a new international legally binding instrument under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the conservation and...
The quest for oil in the deep sea!
Commemorating the 9th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster On the 20th of April 2010, the global public held their breath. At a depth of around 1500 metres, a massive rise in pressure led to an unexpected leak of oil and gas, which ignited, exploded and set...
MAKE WHALES FEEL HOME!
One might expect you as a guest to have some manner and behave in a respectful and polite way towards your host who wants you to feel welcome. But imagine a guest turn your home into a garbage bin, dump waste, trawl nets, drive lorries straight through your living...
Make every beach visit an adventure and help clean up our act!
Guestblog by Michael Stachowitsch, PhD., Author of "The Beachcomber's Guide to Marine Debris" What can we know, what must we do, what can we hope for? These three philosophical questions are directly relevant to the status of the oceans. To the first question: we know...
Environmental multilateralism at risk – where do we go from here?
21.03.2019, Nairobi, Kenya As the world’s largest decision-making body on the Environment, the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) is tasked with finding solutions to global environmental problems. From the 11th to 15th of March 2019 delegates, civil society...