BBNJ-Agreement: Swiss Federal Council decides to sign and submit to Parliament for ratification. PRESS RELEASE – 15 January 2025 Finally - Switzerland to Sign the UN High Seas Treaty - The Swiss Federal Council decided in today's meeting to sign the High Seas Treaty (BBNJ-Agreement) and submit it to Parliament for ratification. - With this decision, Switzerland joins over 100 countries that have already signed the ...
Academic article analyses whether 'ecocide' could serve as legal mechanism to address gravest environmental crimes against the ocean. PRESS RELEASE – 8. January 2025 New Publication Examines Ecocide Concept for Marine Environments – Focus on Bottom Trawling - Bottom trawling causes severe, widespread, and long-term destruction of marine ecosystems. - Growing ...
In a deplorable move, the Icelandic government has today issued 5-year licences for the resumption of whaling of both fin whales and minke whales in the North-east Atlantic. PRESS COMMENT – 5 December 2024 Iceland defies world opinion and resumes commercial whaling on fin and minke whales In a deeply shocking, sudden and surprising move, the Icelandic minister for ...
UN member states have built a bridge towards an ambitious global treaty to end plastic pollution at the negotiations in Busan, South Korea – but an additional negotiating session will be needed in 2025 to finalise the agreement. PRESS RELEASE – 1 December 2024 UN Negotiations in Busan: Bridge Built Towards Historic Global Plastics Treaty - An impressive majority ...
As UN member states gather in Korea for the final round of plastics treaty negotiations, OceanCare calls for decisive action: The world needs ambitious legal measures to reduce plastic production and protect marine life. PRESS RELEASE – 21 November 2024 Final Negotiations Begin: The World Needs a Strong Treaty to End Plastic Pollution - UN member states gather in ...
IWC meeting in Peru: Attack on whaling moratorium by Japan's allies repelled, but whale sanctuary proposal for the South Atlantic falls with narrow margin. PRESS RELEASE – 27 September 2024 IWC meeting strengthens whaling moratorium - but Japan's allies prevent South Atlantic whale sanctuary by one vote - The ...
OceanCare will defend the International Whaling Commission’s vitally important conservation work and the global ban on commercial whaling against renewed attacks from the pro-whaling lobby at the upcoming IWC meeting in Lima, Peru. PRESS RELEASE – 20 September 2024 OceanCare will defend global efforts to protect whales at pivotal IWC meeting in Peru - OceanCare ...
OceanCare remains extremely concerned about the irreversible damage that can be caused by deep-sea mining, in particular through underwater noise pollution. It urges ISA Member States to support and engage in the discussion of a General Policy for the protection and preservation of the marine environment that is ...
A new independent scientific assessment of the Faroe Islands’ pilot whale hunts confirms acute welfare concerns and calls the practice “inherently inhumane”. OceanCare calls for an immediate end to this cruel hunting “tradition”. PRESS RELEASE – 17 July 2024 New Report Exposes Acute Welfare Issues in Faroes Pilot Whale Hunt - A new independent scientific assessment of the Faroe Islands’ pilot whale hunts ...
The Greek government, the Athens-based environmental think tank The Green Tank and OceanCare signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of the “SAvE Whales” system in the Strait of Kythira. This innovative technology is designed as a complementary tool to protect the endangered sperm whales ...
OceanCare is bitterly disappointed by today's announcement of the Icelandic government's devastating decision to allow commercial whaling to continue. PRESS COMMENT – 11 June 2024 Cruelty continued: Iceland’s decision to issue new whale killing quota condemned by conservation experts Today, the Icelandic ...
OceanCare welcomes the landmark advisory opinion of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea announced today, which clarifies that international law obliges governments to make every effort to protect marine ecosystems. The Tribunal’s position was both unanimous and unequivocal – anthropogenic ...
While OceanCare regrets the distress caused to the two crew members who had to be rescued after their yacht “Alboran Cognac” was damaged by orcas and sank in the southern entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar last Sunday, it reiterates its call for tolerance towards the orcas. PRESS COMMENT – 14 May 2024 OceanCare: Gibraltar orca attack not deliberate or act of revenge On Sunday, 12 May, the 15-metre yacht “Alboran ...
- Japan announced to expand its North Pacific whaling to include fin whales. - Whales are important in maintaining the health of the marine ecosystems on which all life on Earth depends, OceanCare experts emphasize. - OceanCare urges the Japanese government to refrain from the planned expansion of its whaling activities. PRESS RELEASE – 9 May 2024 OceanCare appalled ...
PRESS RELEASE – 8 May 2024 Climeworks’ CO2 vacuum cleaner, "Mammoth", is not a solution to the climate crisis - Proponents of direct air capture technology claim that it will significantly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. - The largest plant to date from the Swiss company Climeworks will go into operation in Iceland on 8 May 2024. - For OceanCare, this ...
A week of negotiations between UN member states on a global Plastics Treaty ended today in Ottawa, Canada. Fabienne McLellan, Managing Director of OceanCare, who followed the negotiations on site, comments on the outcomes. PRESS COMMENT – 30 April 2024 OceanCare: Effective global Plastics Treaty is possible, but ...
The fourth of five rounds of negotiations on a global plastics treaty is drawing to a close in Ottawa, Canada. Ahead of the closing session, a strong group of countries from all continents issued a declaration calling on negotiators to secure a treaty that addresses the entire life cycle of plastics and to prevent the overproduction of plastics. PRESS RELEASE – 30 ...
Representatives of all UN member states are meeting in Ottawa, Canada from 23 to 29 April 2024 to advance negotiations on an international legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution, including in the marine environment. With only one more round of negotiations to go, this week will be crucial in reaching ...
The Greek Ministry of Environment and Energy, the Natural Environment and Climate Change Agency of Greece, together with the international marine conservation organisation OceanCare and the Athens-based environmental think tank The Green Tank announced today, as part of the Our Ocean Conference 2024, their ...
Debate at UN environmental summit highlights need for global ban on solar geoengineering - Switzerland ultimately withdrew its resolution on solar radiation modification at the Sixth UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) after governments could not even reach consensus on a knowledge repository for the controversial technologies. - The resolution went in several directions during an intense set of negotiations, with different ...
The world’s environment ministers are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya this week for the sixth UN Environment Assembly to discuss how multilateralism can help tackle the triple planetary crisis of climate change, loss of nature and biodiversity, and pollution and contamination. OceanCare is very concerned that a ...
Member States of the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals will meet in Uzbekistan, 12-17 February 2024 to address issues of critical importance to the global biodiversity crisis. The most intense debate is expected to be on the controversial issue of deep-sea mining. ...
Plastics Treaty Negotiations end without major outcomes but an effective instrument to stem the plastic tide remains within reach N airobi/Zurich, 19th November 2023: Today, the third meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) for ...
CLEAN-UPS OR CLEAN-WASHING? Environmental organisations claim Plastic clean-up tech not all it seems on the surface LONDON/ZURICH, 6th November 2023: A new report from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and OceanCare highlights the damaging impacts of ‘quick fix’ ocean clean-up ...
New Report Debunks Claims of Whale and Dolphin Hunters in Faroe Islands California/Washington, DC/London/Munich/Zurich, September 25, 2023: Today, in the wake of the latest Faroe Islands drive hunt on Friday that saw the killing of 42 more pilot whales, seven of the world’s leading animal welfare and ...
Harpoons to be fired again as Iceland resumes its fin whale hunt London/Vienna/Zurich, 31st of August 2023: With today’s announcement by Iceland‘s Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Svandís Svavarsdóttir, not to continue this summer’s temporary whaling ban, fin whales will soon be killed again. The two Icelandic whaling vessels left port ...