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Ocean Governance Project at Monaco Ocean Week 2023
The Ocean Governance project took an active part in this year's Monaco Ocean Week, which took place from 20 to 25 March. Two official events on 22 March presented the project and its progress in 2022, and the new Global Alliance for Ocean Protection. The first event,...
The Marine Mammal Twinning at the Humpback Whale World Congress
Between 6 and 11 March 2023, the Marine Mammal Twinning of the Ocean Governance project’s component 2 attended the 3rd Humpback Whale World Congress, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The congress brought together stakeholders involved in humpback whale...
BBNJ treaty – reflections on the historic agreement
To manage new MPAs in international waters, we will need to apply all the existing knowledge acquired from MPA management in jurisdictional waters The landmark ‘high seas treaty’ agreed on 5 March represents a major advance in global ocean governance as it creates the...
Building ocean governance through strong human partnerships: our takeaway from IMPAC5
The Ocean Governance project took a major part in the Fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC5), a global forum for ocean conservation professionals and officials, which was held in Vancouver, Canada, from 3-9 February 2023. By enabling a large...
Press release: the Ocean Governance project is at IMPAC5
3 February 2023 -- From 3-9 February 2023, the Ocean Governance project is at the 5th International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC5) in Vancouver, Canada. Partners from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe will take part in official sessions to share the...
New Consultancy for the Global Alliance for Marine Protection
On 11th January, a new consultancy for the Global Alliance for Marine Protection was launched by the Ocean Governance Project, MedPAN, REDLAC, and THE MED FUND. In light of the newly agreed upon post-2020 biodiversity targets (read more here), it is more important...
New Global Biodiversity Framework signed at COP15 in Montréal – OG Governance Project hosts side event
Last December, a landmark deal was reached at the UN biodiversity summit in Montréal after two weeks of intense negotiations. Puri Canals attended the event in her double role as our Technical Director and the President of MedPAN, the network of Marine Protected Areas...
VIDEO: What is the EU Ocean Governance Project?
We are happy to finally show you our new video explaining the background and purpose of the EU Ocean Governance Project. It will increase the project’s visibility and become a useful tool to introduce ourselves to new audiences at future events. Watch and share!...
Preparing the resilience experts of the future: Second Training of Trainers in Senegal
Senegal is one of the countries strongly involved in the utilisation and promotion of the R-SAT tool, which helps managers of Marine Protected Areas to assess and increase their MPAs resilience to rapid changes, such as climate change impacts. From 4th to 9th December...