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

General News

Ending overfishing to counter climate change

10 October 2023

• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

General News

From the atmosphere to the depths: marine life is an ally against climate change

10 October 2023

• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Rewilding the ocean

Press Releases

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

Publications

50 civil society organisations call for renewables acceleration to be nature- and community-inclusive

9 October 2023

• Climate and ocean
• Marine protected areas
• Renewable energy at sea

Multimedia

Video: By taking important quantities of sea life out of the ocean, bottom trawling accelerates climate c…

5 October 2023

Each living organism in the ocean has its specific role in the carbon cycle. Large sea creatures like whales store a great amount of carbon; schools of small fish...

• Climate and ocean
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean use

Publications

NGO letter calling for the protection and restoration of the European eel in the Mediterranean

5 October 2023

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Publications

200 civil society organisations urge the EU to adopt a strong Nature Restoration Law

3 October 2023

• Marine protected areas
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean