Press Releases

EU Scientific body confirms stronger bycatch measures are needed to protect Bay of Biscay common dolphins and Baltic Proper harbour porpoises

15 April 2021

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

UN Shipping Agency Slammed for Fiddling While Arctic Melts

26 March 2021

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

General News

NGOs Urge IMO To Halve Arctic Black Carbon Impacts By Switching Fuels

22 March 2021

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

Press Releases

Two steps forward, one giant step back: European Parliament votes for modern and transparent fisheries, but opens grave loophole

11 March 2021

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

Fisheries Committee vote creates loopholes that put sustainability and legality of EU seafood at risk

5 February 2021

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

Pending outcome in Brexit deal risks progress towards ending overfishing in the North-East Atlantic

17 December 2020

Early this morning European Fisheries Ministers concluded negotiations on an atypical December AGRIFISH Council meeting, with the pending outcome of Brexit impacting this year´s agenda. Of the fishing quotas...

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

Thousands of dolphin deaths likely in Spain and France as EU fails to act

1 December 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

Marine environment: European Court of Auditors’ analysis is urgent call to action

26 November 2020

• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

Press Releases

NGOs urge IMO to rethink weak HFO ban, demand stronger Arctic protection

16 November 2020

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

Press Releases

UN’s shipping agency must not backtrack on its own climate plan

13 November 2020

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

Press Releases

Arctic sea ice crisis: world leaders must cut emissions to curb Arctic heating

2 November 2020

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

Press Releases

European Commission must stop France and Spain from killing thousands of dolphins, warn NGOs

28 October 2020

NGOs warn that thousands of common dolphins in the Bay of Biscay face horrific deaths in fishing nets this winter if the EU Commission does not step in with...

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

France fails to prevent thousands of dolphin deaths, challenging law and science

23 October 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

UN shipping body fails to implement its own greenhouse gas reduction plan

23 October 2020

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

Press Releases

EU and UK must ensure protection of deep-sea fish in Northeast Atlantic

22 October 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

NGOs welcome EU Fisheries Ministers setting more Baltic fishing limits in line with science, but ecological crisis not averted

20 October 2020

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

We cannot mine our way out of the climate crisis – Open letter to the European Commission

29 September 2020

• Climate and ocean
• Deep sea mining
• Ocean use

Press Releases

Arctic sea ice loss: world leaders must arrest arctic climate change impacts

27 September 2020

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping