Sarah Lewis

In January 2024, the Hub submitted written evidence to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on “The impacts of loss and damage from the adverse effects of climate change on human rights.” Hub researchers Senia Febrica (University of Strathclyde, UK), Buhle Francis (Rhodes University, South Africa), Georgina Yaa Oduro (University of Cape […]

On 13 December 2023, Hub’s early–career researcher, Holly Niner (University of Plymouth, UK), delivered the first Climate Classroom dedicated to the ocean at Climate COP28. The Climate Classrooms are envisaged as “pop-up learning sessions held during major climate change conferences” covering key climate change topics for a wide audience, including negotiators and other delegates. 266 […]

I recently had the privilege of participating in a panel at COP28 entitled “Artivism for a Resilient Future,” organised by Hivos and the Climate Development Knowledge Network. The discussions were inspiring and surfacing the often-overlooked role of Indigenous, traditional, and local knowledge in climate research and policy, and the role artists play in working in […]

In the episode 3 of the One Ocean Hub podcast, Knowledge Exchange Associate Milica Prokic talks to early-career researchers Sophie Shields (One Ocean Hub/ Inspiring Children’s Futures, University of Strathclyde, UK) Mia Strand (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa),  about children’s right to be heard on the ocean-climate nexus, ocean literacies and why literacies, plural, is […]

  The film ‘Mapping for Justice’ shows how the Hub together with its partners in South Africa has been supporting the people of Kosi Bay to claim recognition of their customary rights in the context of the iSimangaliso UNESCO World Heritage Site. Research co-produced by the Hub and the local community highlights poor participation, and […]

  The Hub’s collaboration with South Africa’s Empatheatre was celebrated at the ‘Oscars of Higher Education’ – the Times Higher Education Awards (THE) and THE Campus Live UK&IE conference that ‘bring together higher education leaders, industry partners and policy experts’ from the UK and Ireland ‘to discuss, debate and plan how to achieve institutional success’.   […]

  Following on our collaboration with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2022-2023 to clarify the content of the human rights of small-scale fishers and ensure their coherent protection through the implementation of the FAO Small-scale Fisheries (SSF) Guidelines […]

  We have prepared a legal note to contribute to consideration by the International Court of Justice of the request for an Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of climate change, which expands on the arguments on the relevance of marine biodiversity science and international biodiversity law shared with the International Tribunal […]

  With 84 signatories already supporting the 2023 Agreement on Marine Biodiversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), national governments and international judges are starting to consider the way forward towards implementing this ground-breaking international treaty. As part of these efforts, Hub Director Elisa Morgera was invited to reflect on fair and equitable benefit-sharing under […]