Press Releases

Plastic production pellets: In Ecaussinnes, MEPs take a bitter look at chronic pollution

23 February 2024

• Clean ocean
• Ocean plastic pollution

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New report: Commission and EU Countries to draw from existing realities to boost fair and eco-friendly fishing allocations

19 February 2024

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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European Parliament responds to Norway’s decision to open the Arctic to deep-sea mining by calling for a global moratorium on the industry

7 February 2024

• Deep sea mining

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The Ups and Downs of Parliament’s Fisheries Verdict

18 January 2024

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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European Parliament at risk of backpedaling on marine protection ambition

11 January 2024

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Sustainable fisheries is still utopia, amid climate breakdown and depleted fish populations

12 December 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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EU ministers set quotas for Baltic herring that defy fisheries laws 

24 October 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Fisheries ministers poised to breach EU law and exacerbate Baltic ecosystem crisis, NGOs warn 

19 October 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Rethink Plastic alliance welcomes proposal on pellet pollution, but urges Commission to also tackle the other major sources of microplastics pollution

16 October 2023

• Clean ocean
• Ocean plastic pollution

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Seas At Risk and Oceana urge Spain to create 50 marine sanctuaries to safeguard and restore key ecosystems

10 October 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

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EU Nature Restoration Law will lack teeth if it fails to address fisheries impacts

28 September 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

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European Parliament adopts law on nature restoration: Despite low ambition, hope remains for ocean restoration

12 July 2023

• Climate and ocean
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean governance

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UN agrees on a new climate plan for global shipping, but not 1.5°C aligned

7 July 2023

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

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Governments breaking their commitments to protect the ocean from shipping pollution

29 June 2023

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

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Nature Restoration Law on its way to Plenary

27 June 2023

• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

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EU Fisheries Ministers refuse to end destructive fisheries

26 June 2023

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

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Council of the EU gives nature restoration the green light: EU environment ministers support much-needed law to combat climate and biodiversity loss crises

20 June 2023

• Marine protected areas

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Nature Restoration Law lives to fight another day

15 June 2023

• Rewilding the ocean