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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

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NGOs urge European Parliament to push for full implementation of Common Fisheries Policy instead of considering reform

16 March 2022

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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As EU celebrates 30 years of Natura 2000, NGOs call for these areas to be actually ‘protected’ and for an EU-wide trawl ban in them

24 February 2022

• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

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Call for Ambitious Revision of EU Fisheries Control Regulation to Protect Biodiversity and Climate

11 February 2022

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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More than half a million citizens demand action to save thousands of dolphins from fishing nets in France and Spain

10 February 2022

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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Global supply chain crisis is also a shipping emissions crisis; urgent action needed

28 January 2022

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

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More than 150,000 Europeans call on EU to ban bottom-trawling to protect ocean and climate

20 December 2021

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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EU Fisheries Ministers to Proudly Keep on Overfishing in 2022

14 December 2021

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

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France, Spain and Italy must stop playing russian roulette with their Mediterranean fisheries, and instead abide by EU law they committed to

9 December 2021

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use