Tag: oceans

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.

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.

BIMCO supports the Seabed 2030 initiative, in an effort to bring together bathymetric data and produce a definitive map of the world ocean floor by 2030.

30 countries from across the oceans joined forces to tackle marine plastic litter under the GloLitter Partnerships Project.

Despite a drive from the global community to make oceans cleaner, ships are the polluting ‘elephants in the room’ nobody is talking about, with nearly every vessel in the world continually releasing substantial amounts of toxic metals into the sea, a new study notes. 

Danish company ReSea Project, involved in cleaning rivers and oceans in Indonesia, became the second organization in the world to be certified to DNV GL’s Chain of Custody standard, built to assure the traceability and integrity of plastic recovered from the hydrosphere. 

The not-for-profit organisation Eyesea has successfully tested its pollution-mapping app on ocean-going vessels, when proof-of-concept readings using the prototype app were taken last month by crew members of an Oldendorff Carriers vessel near Florida, and seafarers manning a Union Marine Management Services (UMMS) vessel off the coast of Guinea-Bissau and Senegal.

A.P. Moller-Maersk informed that extended its partnership with The Ocean Cleanup, a foundation which goals to rid the world’s oceans of plastic.

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.