Leading marine NGO Seas At Risk warmly welcomes European Commission President-designate Ursula von der Leyen’s commitment to an Ocean Pact, announced today [18 July] during the presentation of her Political Guidelines (1)…
London, 18 March 2024 – The Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII), integral to global efforts to enhance energy efficiency in shipping and cut emissions, will be on the table for discussion as the United Nations…
Today, the European Commission has announced that it will protect 87 vulnerable marine ecosystems from deep-sea bottom fishing near the Atlantic coasts of France, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Deep-sea vulnerable marine ecosystems…
Today, the European Commission presented its legislative proposal on nature restoration, a new law with binding targets to restore degraded land and marine ecosystems across the EU. This is a major milestone…
The Governments of Finland and Sweden, Seas at Risk, Ocean Care, Clean Shipping Coalition, Clean Arctic Alliance together with the Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) and Research Institutes of…
Brussels, Belgium – 14 June, 2022 Yesterday at an EU Ocean Week event, six NGOs published their assessment of the EU’s progress to secure a healthy ocean by 2030 –…
London, April 7th, 2022:- A week that opened with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lambasting governments and industry for their climate inaction, and the IPCC’s Climate Mitigation report criticising the poor climate…
As EU celebrates 30 years of Natura 2000, NGOs call for these areas to be actually ‘protected’ and for an EU-wide trawl ban in them Despite a six-fold increase of…
International Shipping Body Fails the Arctic and Global Climate Fight Civil society groups have damned the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for failing to take action on the Arctic climate crisis,…
European Commission must stop France and Spain from killing thousands of dolphins, warn NGOs NGOs warn that thousands of common dolphins in the Bay of Biscay face horrific deaths in…
Deep sea remains in deep trouble Scientists indicate that deep sea fish populations in the EU are either depleted or lacking information to assess their status. NGOs urge European decision-makers…
Scientists call for immediate EU action to protect dolphins and porpoises following NGO request Scientists from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) have published landmark advice today, warning…
EU Fisheries Ministers flout law and allow overfishing to continue in 2020 EU Fisheries Ministers today failed to meet their legal obligation to end overfishing by 2020, setting fishing limits…
New report highlights health, nature and climate benefits of reducing ship speeds Brussels, 11 November 2019. On the eve of the latest round of UN ship climate negotiations at the…
EMFF: Ticking time-bomb for the ocean The European Parliament plenary voted today on how to spend approximately EUR 6 billion of European taxpayers’ money on ocean-linked activities under the European…
Brussels, 19th November 2018 – Seas At Risk is deeply disappointed by the decisions on fishing limits for deep sea fish stocks for 2019-2020 taken by the Fisheries’ Council of…
London, 9 February 2018 – Moves to close a loophole in enforcement of the cap on high-sulphur marine fuel, which comes into effect in January 2020, have been welcomed by the…
Brussels, 8 June 2016 – The Clean Shipping Coalition criticises container ship giant Maersk for its statement that is considers to flag out end-of-life vessels from the Danish or other European registries…