World Oceans Day 2018 to focus on cleaning up plastic in oceans
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FAO: Join global treaty to root out the scourge of illegal fishing
Calling for strengthening the fight against illegal fishing, the United Nations food security agency has urged all countries to join a landmark global treaty that aims to rid the world of the multibillion-dollar scourge.
New ocean report findings support need for stronger high seas governance
The report recognizes the mounting evidence that some parts of the ocean are near their ecological tipping point due to climate change and other human impacts.
Secretary-General’s World Oceans Day message
"Caring for, and using, our oceans in sustainable ways is critical to achieve ecological and economic goals for communities everywhere," he says.
‘The ocean and us’ – BBC UN Oceans Summit
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‘Beginning of end for rogue fishing,’ says UN agency as more States back landmark treaty
A new agreement aimed at stopping rogue fishing practices represents the capstone of years of diplomatic effort to combat the scourge of illegal fishing, according to the United Nations food agency.
The Ocean Conference: An Integrated Vision that must be Delivered
At the Ocean Conference (scheduled to take place 5-9 June) in New York, nations will gather to discuss how best to deliver on Sustainable Development Goal 14, Life Below Water. This event is critical because it will, for perhaps the first time, focus the international community on how critical our oceans to our life and livelihoods.
Feature: UN’s mission to keep plastics out of oceans and marine life
There will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans by 2050 unless people stop using single-use plastic items such as plastic bags and plastic bottles, according to figures cited by the United Nations.
Climate change will lead to annual coral bleaching, study predicts
Researchers found that the reefs in Taiwan and the Turks and Caicos archipelago will be among the first to experience annual bleaching.
Plans for global conference on oceans in New York next June moving forward
The Ocean Conference will bring together representatives from governments, the private sector, and civil society to discuss solutions to the problems facing the oceans.
Media advisory: Briefing at COP22 on upcoming UN Oceans conference
PGA, conference co-chairs and president to hold press briefing on June 2017 UN Conference to support the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14.
UNESCO hails creation of world’s largest marine protected area
UNESCO welcomes the establishment by US President Barack Obama of the largest nature reserve in the world, done through expanding a marine reserve in the state of Hawaii.
Ban Ki-moon reunites with Hokule’a crew for World Oceans Day
Warning that we are dangerously close to breaking the limit of how we should use oceans, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with a Polynesian voyaging canoe crew using traditional methods to circumvent the world.
World Oceans Day in photos
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked that we recommit to using the oceans' gifts "peacefully, equitably and sustainably."
Concern about marine ecosystems at center of World Oceans Day observances
Growing concern over the health of marine ecosystems is at the center of United Nations observances to mark World Oceans Day 2016 on 8 June.
On World Oceans Day, UN urges global resolve to ‘appreciate, protect and restore’ Earth’s oceans
Although the world's oceans are vast, their capacity to withstand damage caused by human activity is limited, compromising their critical contribution to the future of sustainable development, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared today as the United Nations kicked-off its celebrations for the 2015 edition of World Oceans Day.