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STRENGTHENING SPIRITUAL AND CULTURAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE OCEAN IN A TIME OF CLIMATE CHANGE
During COP27 Oceans & Land Day, the empatheatre team performed the play Lalela uLwandle (Listen to the Sea) to explore how we may start to buildresilience and adaptation to climate change through environmentally just and equitable processes. The play and ensuing discussion highlighted that we need to make decisions about the oceans that are inclusive […]
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND OCEAN CLIMATE ACTION
The stories and experiences of knowledge holders from Namibia, Madagascar, Ghana, and South Africa, albeit not physically present at COP27, contributed to highlight how their knowledge, perspectives, and action are crucial to shaping the future of our ocean and climate. Participants who listened to these stories reflected on rights, responsibilities, responses and representation at the […]
Indigenous Knowledge and Inclusive Ocean Governance: a Case Study from Vanuatu
There is urgency in capturing traditional ocean knowledge, including traditional sea-based origin stories, as well as traditional weather and maritime knowledge. This blog post reflects on what we have learnt and continue to learn from arts-based approaches to valuing and sharing ocean knowledge and its contributions to climate change policy, based on experience in Vanuatu […]
Exploring the Links between One Health, the Ocean and Climate Change
To ensure a holistic approach to ocean-climate action, different actors working from the local to the global level have shared their insights on the links between One Health, the ocean, coastal communities’ resilience, marine bio-discovery, fisheries and blue food, and ocean plastics. The roundtable titled ‘One Health, the Ocean and Climate Change’ was held on […]
Advancing children’s rights through nature-based solutions
As part of the inaugural Children and Youth Pavilion at COP27, children and youth representatives, organisations that work closely with youth, and experts engaged in inter-generational learning about climate change mitigation and adaptation through nature-based solutions and their implications for human rights and climate finance. The event explored what lessons can be learned from nature-based […]
The ocean is included in the zero draft of the UN General Comment on Children’s rights to a healthy environment
We are delighted to see the ocean included in the Zero Draft of a new UN General Comment No. 26 on children’s human rights and a healthy environment (‘the Zero Draft’). This development follows months of inputs and engagements with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, and partners based on our […]
Fostering Cooperation to Advance the Protection of Small-Scale Fishers’ Human Rights
This blogpost summarises key points discussed during the webinar titled, “Fostering Cooperation Among Relevant UN bodies to Advance Small-Scale Fishers’ Human Rights in the Face of Climate Change” organised for the COP27 Virtual Ocean Pavilion on 14 November 2022. The webinar panel brought together SSF representatives, researchers, and representatives from different UN bodies to exchange […]
raising unity in ocean-climate action
Collaborative and cooperative approaches are being used to progress the ocean in the climate, biodiversity and sustainable development agendas. The closing event of COP27 Ocean Pavilion reflected on what we have learnt about cooperation, in the light of the outcomes and expectations from the major ocean events of 2022. The One Ocean Hub participated in […]
The First Hub special issue is out – drawing focus on The ocean, sustainable development and human rights
The One Ocean Hub is pleased to announce that we have published the first special issue of an international peer-reviewed journal as a collective endeavour across Global South and Global North researchers at different stages of their career. The special issue is focused on the ocean, sustainable development and human rights and appears in the […]
