Tag: healthy oceans

Five Portuguese institutions created the OceanACT, a consortium that aims to promote the testing of innovative ocean technologies in Portugal.

The Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship (COVE), GCE Ocean Technology (GCE OT) Subsea Monitoring Network (SMN) and Ocean Innovation Norwegian Catapult Centre signed agreement in order to develop new ocean technologies.

Norwegian ferry operator Norled has received the world’s first liquid hydrogen-powered ferry, MF Hydra.

The Australian Government has launched a Ghost Nets Initiative to address the issue of ghost nets and marine debris littering northern Australian waters and beaches.

Following the World's Ocean Day several days ago, Ocean & Climate Platform released a report focusing on how to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss.

June 8th is World Oceans Day and the theme this year is "Life and livelihoods" according to Kitack Lim, Secretary-General of IMO.

The Fondation de la Mer and Bureau Veritas, along with the French Ministry of the Sea, are launching “Ocean Approved”.

Governments need to take the world’s oceans more strongly into account while considering how to curb greenhouse emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change.

Australia has joined the Global Ocean Alliance, an alliance of nearly 40 nations calling for a global target to protect the world’s ocean by 2030.

Approximately 50 countries around the global are about to launch a coalition in order to protect almost a third of the planet by 2030, while halt the destruction of the natural world and slow extinctions of wildlife.