Bringing the ocean into the room

Changing our mind-set towards the ocean: it’s time to change our attitude - we need to move from seeing the ocean as a space we use and exploit for our own good to recognizing its value and putting its protection at the top of our list of priorities. The ocean and its inhabitants need a voice at the negotiating table. See why here. One growing movement to do just that is the campaign initiated by The Ocean Race for a Universal Declaration of Ocean Rights (find out more here), another is the Varda Group’s proposal Let’s be Nice to the Ocean: Thinking Outside the Box before the Third UN Ocean Conference which proposes making ocean protection the norm rather than the exception.