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A new art exhibition has been added to the knowledge-translation platform One Ocean Learn, showcasing youth digital art that explores anthropogenic threats to the ocean. The selection of  artworks by young people presented here were collated as part of the Go Deep Creative Challenge arts project organised by The Oxygen Project, Sustainable Ocean Alliance, and Peace […]

What are the intersections and opportunities for protecting children’s human rights and everyone’s right to a healthy environment, including a healthy ocean? Hub researchers Alana Malinde S. N. Lancaster (Environmental Law, Ocean Governance & Climate Justice Unit, University of the West Indies) and Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde) explored this question at an academic-practitioner workshop […]

Hub researchers, Lynne Shannon (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Stuart Jeffrey (The Glasgow School of Art, UK)’s remarks during the 3rd World Biodiversity Forum emphasised the role of inter-and trans-disciplinary development research to advance science to ocean-biodiversity conservation actions and solutions and set us on a path towards sustainable transformation. The 3rd World Biodiversity […]

The GCRF One Ocean Hub closing conference took place from 20-24 May 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa with approximately 100 participants from the Hub-wide network in attendance. The week-long workshop set out to celebrate the Hub’s five-year journey, making space to reflect on what we set out to achieve at the beginning of the […]

In May 2024, the UN launched a new, freely accessible, online training course on ‘Co-design for the Ocean Decade’​​, as part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030 (‘Ocean Decade’). One Ocean Hub contributed to content development for the course, with inputs from Hub researchers, Mia Strand (Nelson Mandela University, University […]

One Ocean Hub early-career researcher Aphiwe Moshani (University of Cape Town, South Africa) is currently working as a trainee for the Hub partner UNITAR – the UN Institute for Teaching and Research (UNITAR), with whom we are co-developing the knowledge-translation platform One Ocean Learn. The Learning Pathway focuses on the interlinkages of the ocean, culture […]

During the Ocean Literacy Dialogues, Hub researchers contributed to several events:   Key messages   Hub Director, Elisa Morgera:  “Transformative ocean science needs to be based on fair research partnerships and mutual learning between Global North/South scientists and among natural, social and legal researchers and Indigenous and local knowledge holders.”  “Ocean science funders need to provide flexibility […]

The Barbados Hearings of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights provided a historic opportunity for governments, researchers, civil society, youth and other human rights holders to express their concerns about the human rights issues related to climate change, including at the ocean-climate nexus. The hearings provided a clear indication of the commitment and depth of […]

The key messages from the Barcelona Decade Conference send hopeful signals that ocean science is moving towards more inclusive thinking in terms of inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to support ocean governance in terms of solutions, as well as the identification of problems. At the same time, significant space for improvement remains in ensuring meaningful change […]