Press Releases

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

12 December 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

General News

Revised EU Control Regulation is finally law! What does it mean for fish populations and the incidental catches of sensitive species?

4 December 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean use

Publications

Open letter to UN bodies and leaders to involve small-scale fishers and local communities in environmental related decisions.

24 November 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

General News

The Black Friday frenzy – The journey behind the shipping industry and how we allowed it to get this far

24 November 2023

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping
• Ocean plastic pollution

General News

Plastics lobby threatens progress at global plastics treaty negotiations in Nairobi 

21 November 2023

• Clean ocean
• Ocean plastic pollution

General News

EU leaders reach deal to #RestoreOcean! EU Nature Restoration Law gets greenlight

15 November 2023

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

Publications

NGO Letter: The EU must get certification schemes right for critical raw materials

14 November 2023

• Deep sea mining

General News

European concerns mount over Norway’s deep-sea mining plans amid ongoing International Seabed Authority negotiations 

10 November 2023

• Clean ocean
• Deep sea mining
• Ocean noise pollution

Publications

Civil society calling for ambitious EU position in Global Plastics Treaty negotiations

7 November 2023

• Clean ocean
• Ocean plastic pollution

General News

Microplastic pollution continues to accelerate while EU ambition stalls

6 November 2023

• Clean ocean
• Ocean plastic pollution

General News

A missed opportunity: European Wind Power Package falls short of environmental ambition

27 October 2023

• Renewable energy at sea

Publications

Joint call to the Commission to not backtrack on the work on food systems

25 October 2023

• Aquaculture
• Low impact fisheries

Press Releases

EU ministers set quotas for Baltic herring that defy fisheries laws 

24 October 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

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

19 October 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

General News

Three actions the EU must take for the ocean and the people depending on it

18 October 2023

• Blue Manifesto
• Clean ocean
• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean governance
• Ocean use

Publications

Ocean of Change: a joint Manifesto for the 2024 European Elections

18 October 2023

• Blue Manifesto
• Clean ocean
• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

General News

Portuguese Parliament approves plans to hit pause on deep-sea mining

17 October 2023

• Deep sea mining
• Ocean use

Press Releases

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