News and Blogs
Exploring Ocean Benefits, Challenges and Prospects with Namibian Coastal Communities
Hub researchers at the University of Namibia have conducted a series of workshops to explore with coastal communities, and public and private sector stakeholders what are ocean benefits, challenges and prospects. The workshops focused on the blue economy concept, ocean governance, opportunities available for local markets in coastal communities and ocean-related laws and regulations. These […]
Exploring the “blue carbon” potential in Namibia
Namibia Nature Foundation and South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute, who are project partners of the One Ocean Hub, held a workshop on 31 March 2022 to advance understanding of the economic value of marine ecosystem services. Experts from government, academia, civil society and the private sector convened in the coastal town of Swakopmund, Namibia to […]
Critical Human Rights Issues at the Ocean-Climate Nexus
*Registration for this event will be made available soon A healthy ocean and the services it provides helps satisfy the material conditions for everyone’s human rights to life, health food, water and culture. This illustrates the interdependencies of human rights, the climate and the ocean, and indicates the importance of integrated and inclusive governance to […]
Participation at BBNJ negotiations matters
This blog post was published simultaneously by the One Ocean Hub and the ERC Project MARIPOLDATA. It is a collaborative effort by the two projects following the BBNJ process in their capacity as researchers from different scientific disciplines and as advocates for an inclusive and transparent BBNJ process. The aim of this post is to […]
Identifying essential conditions and missing links for a sustainable blue economy
The One Ocean Hub researchers recently published an article summarising the results of a collaborative and interdisciplinary analysis of how sustainability is (or is not) reflected in existing and emerging blue economy policy. This involved 15 researchers, internal and external to the One Ocean Hub, who represented different disciplines (law, policy, ecology, sociology, economics, business, […]
CONTRIBUTING TO GLOBAL CONSULTATIONS ON CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT
The One Ocean Hub continues to contributed to the global consultations 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. Alana Malinde […]
The Art of Engagement: the Fishers Tales exhibition
The Fishers Tales moved from its online home into a live exhibition space at the KZNSA Gallery in Durban South Africa, the exhibition which is free to the public runs from the 2 March to 3 April 2022. The exhibition showcases arts-based storytelling on the wondrous tales and emotional connections that fishers enjoy with the […]
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 […]
