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UN climate talks on shipping: short-term action urgently needed

5 December 2022

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

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Blue NGOs urge Council ministers not to let fish become a distant memory

21 November 2022

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Some good news for overfished stocks in the Baltic Sea but could be too little too late

17 October 2022

• Low impact fisheries

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Phasing out single-use plastics: How are EU countries performing?

21 September 2022

• Clean ocean
• Ocean plastic pollution

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European Commission takes bold steps to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems

15 September 2022

• Low impact fisheries

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Replacing bottom trawling with less destructive fishing in the EU is feasible and would help protect marine ecosystems, says report

8 September 2022

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Baltic Sea fishing opportunities in 2023: NGOs welcome increased precaution in Commission’s proposal

25 August 2022

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Amazon Prime Day: Time to invest shipping lines’ billions into climate action

13 July 2022

• Decarbonising shipping

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European Commission strengthens its position against deep sea mining

24 June 2022

• Deep sea mining

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Ocean Base Camp: an open space for civil society during the UN Ocean Conference

23 June 2022

• Climate and ocean
• Deep sea mining
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean noise pollution
• Ocean plastic pollution
• Rewilding the ocean

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EU nature law could be gamechanger for marine biodiversity, but will be meaningless if fisheries not properly addressed – NGO reaction

22 June 2022

• Low impact fisheries

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EU makes poor progress on milestones to deliver a healthy ocean by 2030

14 June 2022

• Blue Manifesto
• Ocean governance
• Ocean plastic pollution
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

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IMO continues to stall on urgent ship climate action, despite alarm bells

12 June 2022

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

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Media Advisory: EU Ocean Week returns with actions to protect and restore our ocean

10 June 2022

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No improvement for collapsed stocks – time for a reboot in the Baltic Sea

1 June 2022

  Responding to yesterday’s publication of annual scientific advice for 2023 fishing limits in the Baltic Sea by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), a...

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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European Parliament calls for action on bottom fishing and true protection for EU’s marine protected areas

3 May 2022

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

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European Parliament vote will serve as crash test of its ambition for ocean biodiversity and the climate

2 May 2022

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

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European environmental organisations call for a ban on destructive fishing practices in Marine Protected Areas

29 April 2022

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