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Two new resources have been added to our One Ocean Learn platform: a new Learning Pathway on the objectives, ambiguities and challenges of the blue economy; and a new art exhibition on the vulnerability of island nations and their unique connections to the ocean.   Learning Pathway: Understanding the Blue Economy  A new learning pathway, Understanding […]

Hub early-career researcher, Mia Strand (Nippon Fellow Ocean-Nexus Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa/ University of Strathclyde, UK), is one of the 23 National Champions for the 2024 Frontiers Planet Prize. Mia’s research centres around arts-based knowledge co-production for more equitable ocean governance processes. Her research has focused on inclusive knowledge co-production […]

The international obligations of States to address climate change in ocean decision-making have implications for inter-generational climate justice and a wide range of ocean-dependent human rights. Hub researchers have been involved in two online dialogues to reflect on the relevance of the Advisory Opinion of the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea vis-à-vis […]

Any decisions that may negatively impact on marine biodiversity should observe precaution and fully assess and prevent foreseeable harm to biodiversity and dependent dimensions of human wellbeing that are protected as human rights. In a new commentary published in npj Ocean Sustainability, an interdisciplinary group of Hub researchers in ecosystem services, environmental governance, and deep-sea […]

Quantified Western scientific knowledge is often treated as the most “rational” and “objective” form of knowledge, which contributes to marginalise non-Western, traditional, locally-situated, or Indigenous knowledge systems. One Ocean Hub early-career researchers have shed a light on this imbalance in knowledge systems and on how it has led to the exclusion of certain communities from […]

Research on the challenges faced by small-scale fisherwomen in Dube, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, was enriched by exchanges on ethics, politics, histories, political ecologies and human rights in Scotland. In April 2024, Hub researcher Aphiwe Moshani (University of Cape Town, South Africa) had the opportunity to participate in the British Council Scotland and the Scottish Graduate […]

The ocean is fundamental for the well-being and survival of the people and planet. It is, therefore, vitally important for the 2025 UN Ocean Conference to identify and implement urgent action to conserve and ensure sustainable use of the ocean, and support the implementation of SDG 14 (Life under water) through a human rights-based approach.  […]

On the 14th of June 2024,  One Ocean Hub organised a one-day workshop on the role of human rights, ocean law and governance in securing an inclusive and sustainable ocean for Ghana. The workshop was held in Cape Coast, Ghana, and was targeted at judicial and law officers drawn from the four coastal regions of […]

For the fourth year in a row, One Ocean Hub participated in the Bonn Climate Conference. This blogpost reflects on the Hub’s contributions to the preparations of the first children’s dialogue at an international climate meeting, and discussions on the ocean-climate nexus. The Bonn Climate Conference encompasses the intersessional meeting of subsidiary bodies under the […]