Laura Meriläinen
Ocean Connections: a multimedia exhibition
An in-person art exhibition Ocean Connections was organised in South End Museum in Algoa Bay, South Africa in March. Following the launch of the exhibition on 23 March, attendees and organisers gathered for a multi-stakeholder workshop to explore how to better integrate cultural connections, Indigenous and local knowledges in area-based ocean management in South Africa. Both […]
FAO Policy and Legal Diagnostic Tool for Small-scale Fishers Published
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has published a landmark “Policy and Legal Diagnostic Tool for sustainable small-scale fisheries” in March 2022, which was co-developed with the One Ocean Hub. The Tool aims to support the identification of barriers and opportunities to support the implementation of the FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale […]
Innovative research for climate adaptation at the ocean-climate-human rights nexus
In the run up to the UN Climate Summit COP26, the Hub’s funder UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) has held a series of events on COP26 Adaptation and Resilience to showcase research that is collaborative, locally led, globally relevant and aligned to the UK COP26 presidency’s theme on adaptation and loss and damage. The UKRI […]
Contributing to defining the 2022 UN Ocean Conference Interactive Dialogues
The United Nations Ocean Conference ‘Scaling up ocean action based on science and innovation for the implementation of Goal 14: stocktaking, partnerships and solutions’ is scheduled from 27th June to 1st July 2022, in Lisbon, Portugal. Stakeholders were invited to contribute inputs to the concept papers of eight interactive dialogues of the Conference, with latest […]
Hub’s contributions to Africa-Europe partnerships on ocean governance
The Africa-Europe Foundation, the European Commission Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE), and the government of Portugal co-hosted a high-level debate ‘Fostering a cross-continental Africa-Europe dialogue on ocean governance: An Africa-Europe high-level dialogue on oceans’ on 14th February 2022. This blogpost reflects on the extent to which One Ocean Hub research contributes to […]
New poetry anthology reflects on climate change and anthropogenic impacts on coastal and ocean environments
Reflecting on the role of poetry in human life, I once said that poetry offers ‘opportunity for a pause’. However, thinking back on this statement, I would now say that poetry does much more than this. It provides a way of remembering the past, of allowing all the intangible aspects of being alive to easily […]
Including the ocean in international guidance on children’s right to a healthy environment
The One Ocean Hub contributed to the first global consultation on the future content of General Comment No. 26 of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child – which will provide international guidance on how children’s rights are impacted by the environmental crisis and what governments must do to uphold these rights. Hub researcher Mia Strand […]
Contributing to a policy dialogue on the international recognition of the human right to a healthy environment
Hub Director Elisa Morgera was invited to a policy dialogue on the international recognition of the human right to healthy environment, and its meaning for States, rights-holders and for nature. The dialogue was hosted by the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the UN in Geneva in cooperation with the Universal Rights Group, ahead of the 2022 […]
Bringing local voices to the Global Partnership on Marine Litter
The One Ocean Hub researchers contributed to share local experiences on the impacts of ocean plastics at an international webinar on the Global Partnership on Marine Litter focused on environmental justice on 17 February 2022 – the video-recording is available here. The webinar aimed to advance the conversation on the need for stronger action to […]
