Yesterday more than 28 parties, and several blocks of parties, communicated support to the UK Presidency for an ocean outcome in the COP26 decision text. Today the draft was released and includes the elements requested to strengthen ocean action in the UNFCCC, including creating an annual ocean climate dialogue. Negotiations among parties are ongoing and likely to continue until at least Friday, when it is anticipated the COP will conclude.
Events
On November 8th at COP26, Ocean Visions, in partnership with the Government of Kenya and the Thunderbird School of Global Management, are hosting a side event entitled “Scaling Carbon Removal Worldwide to Achieve the Paris Agreement and Beyond: The Power of Global Partnerships and the Oceans.”
The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), taking place from 31 October to 12 November 2022 in Glasgow, UK, is an opportunity to move ocean climate conservation up the political agenda and raise public awareness that we cannot solve the climate crisis without ocean action.
IMPAC5: The 5th International Marine Protected Areas Congress
From 1 to 8 September 2022, the world’s leading ocean conservation professionals will meet in Vancouver, Canada to chart a course towards protecting 30% of the global ocean by 2030.
We can ensure future success in protecting the ocean by sharing our past accomplishments. We invite you—as individuals and organizations from around the world—to recount your ocean conservation journeys and lessons learned for future action in ocean protection.
Continue reading Canada welcomes the world to Vancouver in 2022
Between now and COP26, there are plenty of opportunities to raise our collective voice as OneOcean Flotilla Members. Below, you will find a timeline that shows key dates and communications moments between now and November.
We encourage you to get involved by sending us your own dates and activities so we can add them to the list.
First study of its kind to track how plastic bottle pollution moves through the open ocean. Each device is named for a G7 nation.
Continue reading World Ocean Day – Message in a Bottle – New Scientific Tracking Project Launches
Is it going to be same old paradigm, or will the media adopt new frames for a changed world?
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A ‘new normal’ will need new paradigms, narratives and lenses to reflect what is happening. Will ‘jobs vs environment’ be a legitimate way to explore the challenge of rebuilding economies when, in reality, we don’t have a choice but to preserve the planet we inhabit?
Can we really decouple planetary health from economic recovery and present it as a choice – planet or people?
If we really are going to be and do different, we need to communicate in different ways. People and Planet; jobs and nature; growth and environment.
Media Release
Long awaited recognition about the vital role of the ocean in the climate system is poor recompense for failures to tackle the climate emergency
Continue reading CLIMATE COP RECOGNISES THE OCEAN BUT FAILS TO TAKE ACTION TO SAVE OUR BLUE PLANET
Media Advisory
This is a ‘heads-up’ based on internal information on the draft final communiqué text, which looks set to include significant commitments to integrate the ocean into the formal UNFCCC process.
Continue reading COP25 – Expected Ocean Outcomes: Will it deliver the Blue?
Press Release – UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, Madrid
Following on the heels of the first ever IPCC Special Report on the impact of climate breakdown on the ocean, State Parties to the 25th UNFCCC Conference must finally recognise the ocean within both their commitments and action.
Continue reading 25 YEARS ON: BRINGING THE OCEAN INTO THE CLIMATE COP