Fair and inclusive decision-making for a healthy ocean whereby people and planet flourish.

My name is David Wilson, I am a historian and early-career researcher based at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. My research centres on the history of colonisation and marine space, particularly surrounding the impact of colonisation on marine law and governance. I am especially interested in how colonisation led to disparate outcomes across distinctive coastal […]

After the historical mandate to integrate the ocean in all areas of work under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the Glasgow COP in November 2021, and the Ocean-Climate Dialogue at the UNFCCC Intersessional Meeting at Bonn in June 2022, this blog post provides a rapid assessment of the COP27 outcomes […]

My name is Kristina Beck, and I am investigating the effect of future environmental conditions, including climate change, on cold-water corals, both on the physiology of live corals and the dead skeletal framework. We are currently planning a long-term multiple stressor aquarium experiment with the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa. In this experiment, we want to […]