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.
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.
Continue reading World Ocean Day – Message in a Bottle – New Scientific Tracking Project Launches
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.
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
In December 2019, government leaders and states will gather for the UNFCCC COP 25. This COP follows hard on the heels of the IPCC* Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) and has been described as the ‘Blue’ COP by Sebastián Piñera, the President of Chile.
In December 2019, government leaders and states will gather for the UNFCCC COP 25. This COP follows hard on the heels of the IPCC* Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) and has been described as the ‘Blue’ COP by Sebastián Piñera, the President of Chile.
Continue reading COP25 Animations: Don’t leave the ocean out of the UN Climate Conference
