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Scientists call for immediate EU action to protect dolphins and porpoises following NGO request

26 May 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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EU Biodiversity and Farm to Fork Strategies: Ocean recovery targets depend on more sustainable food produ…

20 May 2020

Today, the European Commission unveiled the Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and the Farm to Fork Strategy, two flagship policies of the European Green Deal. These strategies are the first test of the Commission’s commitment to turning the tide on environmental degradation and biodiversity collapse. Publishing...

• Aquaculture
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

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10 years to save the ocean

27 January 2020

• Blue Manifesto

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Oil companies must explain how their new “Super Pollutant” shipping fuels ever came to market

27 January 2020

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

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EU Fisheries Ministers flout law and allow overfishing to continue in 2020

18 December 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Zero to Superhero: Will EU fisheries ministers finally end overfishing this week?

16 December 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Ocean avengers deliver ultimatum to EU Prime Ministers: end overfishing

12 December 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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European Green Deal needs more concrete action on seas and ocean

11 December 2019

• Clean ocean
• Climate and ocean
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

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COP25: Call for governments to end overfishing to counter climate crisis

6 December 2019

• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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EU Commission misses opportunity to halt dolphin and porpoise deaths this winter

5 December 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Shipping climate talks in the slow lane over speed reduction measures

15 November 2019

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

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EMFF – Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament puts the ocean at further risk

12 November 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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New report highlights health, nature and climate benefits of reducing ship speeds

11 November 2019

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

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European Commission does too little too late to safeguard North- East Atlantic fish stocks

28 October 2019

European NGOs ClientEarth, Sciaena, Seas At Risk, The Fisheries Secretariat, and Our Fish react to this year’s proposal from the European Commission for 2020 fishing quotas in the North-East...

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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EU Fisheries Ministers Ignore EU Law and Nature’s Limits for Baltic Sea

14 October 2019

Following news that the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) has today set five out of ten fishing limits for fish caught in the Baltic Sea, far above the...

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Ocean conservation is climate action

25 September 2019

The Special Report on the Ocean and the Cryosphere, released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), makes for grim reading. The ocean is the life-support system for...

• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

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Over 50 NGOs call on EU leaders to protect ocean as climate action

25 September 2019

• Climate and ocean
• Deep sea mining
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

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Lost opportunity: European Commission fails to propose an end to overfishing in the Baltic by 2020

30 August 2019

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use