World Ocean Day

The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable ocean
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in 2022 thatformally recognizes that there is a universal human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Yet there is evidence that human rights impacts associated with the degradation of the ocean environment are accelerating. In this perspective, we highlight how the recognition of the human right to a healthy environment can catalyze ocean action and transform ocean governance. In particular,…
World Ocean Day this year is about collective action for the Ocean
May was essentially dedicated to the preparations of World Ocean Day, 8 June with the fitting UN motto ‘Revitalization: Collective Action for the Ocean’. Revitalization is the all important watch word and it can only be achieved by broad based collaboration addressing several front lines at once: the fisheries crisis driven largely by misplaced public policies that dish out USD 22 billion per year to massively oversized industrial long-distance fleets…