Environmental history in the Medieval and early modern Low Countries, 25-26 October 2024
Claire Weeda of Leiden University opened the Symposium The symposium hosted by the University of Leiden cast the net widely on different aspects [...]
Regionales Symposium zur europäischen Kleinfischerei, Larnaca, Zypern, 1.-3. Juli 2024
Im Rahmen der Vorbereitungen für den nächsten Weltkongress der handwerklichen Fischerei werden von der Forschungsplattform „Too Big To Ignore“ (TBTI) und ihren Partnern regionale Treffen [...]
Where skies and seas meet: Climate and ocean interdependence in policy making
Over the last 50+ years, the International Ocean Institute (IOI) has been conducting training and capacity building in Ocean Governance with the aim of creating knowledgeable [...]
International Panel for Ocean Sustainability (IPOS)
Paul Treguer's Neptune in Trouble The ocean is under siege from multiple human activities. Recognised as global commons, the One Ocean Summit in Brest, [...]
Towards a global network of MPAs for ocean governance
Marine protected areas (MPAs) rightly attract more attention as international biodiversity agreements see them as major instruments to stop mass species extinctions and recover ocean [...]
The appropriation by modern humans of the Earth and the Oceans
Excellent opportunity to join a lecture of acclaimed author and long-time friend, Daniel Pauly, at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, Netherlands, on 2 September 2023. [...]
EU Ocean and Rivers Recovery Mission – Mediterranean Lighthouse
Palermo, Sicily, 30 and 31 May 2023. The regional Lighthouse Activities to recover the badly affected Mediterranean and Black seas brought together representatives of countries, regions, [...]
Agreement to protect the High Seas
On Saturday March 4, 2023, the President of the Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (IGC) tasked with elaborating an Agreement to [...]
The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework webinar
The far-reaching agreement at COP15 in December 2022 which led to the new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework is the successor of the Aichi targets under the [...]