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You are here Home > What We Do > Topics > The Path to a Sustainable Ocean Economy: U.S. Launch of the Ocean Panel Transformations and Report The Path to a Sustainable Ocean Economy: U.S. Launch of the Ocean Panel Transformations and Report January 14, 2021 Join the conversation: #OceanPanel As the world looks to recover from COVID-19 and the economic fallout, a sustainable ocean economy can help solve global challenges and make communities stronger. The High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Ocean Panel) invites you to a discussion featuring U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Norwa...

2020 was supposed to be a super year for the ocean. A packed calendar of international events should have presented opportunities to assess progress towards Sustainable Development Goal No. 14 to conserve and sustainably use ocean resources; renew expiring Aichi Targets to protect coastal and marine habitats; conclude negotiations on a legally binding international agreement for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the high seas; and reach agreement to prohibit fishing subsidies that drive overfishing and illegal practices. The coronavirus pandemic, however, brought a very ...

Fourteen Countries, Oregon State Work to Save the Oceans December 17, 2020  “The ocean is neither too big to fail not too big to fix,” Oregon State University’s Dr. Jane Lubchenco said to OSU Newsroom, “but it is too big and too central to our future to ignore.”  Norway, Palau, Portugal, Ghana, Namibia, Kenya, Chile, Mexico, Jamaica, Canada, Japan, Indonesia, Fiji and Australia might seem to be an unlikely group of nations to work a major change in how the human race makes use of the world’s oceans. Between them, though, those 14 countries have 40% of the world’s coastlines, ...