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ocean news - what’s the latest?
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A Golden Chance to Protect the Pacific’s ‘Blue Corridors’
The Diplomat, 25.08.26
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Tanzanian marine wardens learn to use drones for ocean protection
Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, 24.08.26
Credit: C3S/ECMWF
Copernicus: Daily global sea surface temperature breaks 2024 record
EU Copernicus, 24.08.26
ocean meetings - ongoing and upcoming
4 - 11 September 2026: SSF Summit and COFI, Rome, Italy
7-9 September 2026: The Kunming Dialogue, Kunming, China
27-30 September 2026: Second Informal In-person Meeting of Heads of Delegation to the Plastic Pollution INC,Bangkok, Thailand
27 September-2 October 2026: IWC70 Whaling Commission Meeting, Hobart, Australia
October 2026: Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR 45), Hobart, Australia
5-7 October 2026: ICOE-OEE 2026 Ocean Energy Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands
6-9 October 2026: Twelfth Conference of Parties (COP12) to the Nairobi Convention, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
19-30 October 2026: 17th meeting on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP 17, Yerevan, Armenia
19 October - 20 November 2026: Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf Sixty-eighth session, New York, USA
9-20 November 2026: COP31 Climate Conference , Antalya, Türkiye
11-12 November 2026: 25th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans (Regional Seas), London, United Kingdom
13-18 November 2026: 8th International Marine Conservation Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland
17-20 November 2026: World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Bruges, Belgium
30 November - 3 December 2026: 85th session of the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee, London, UK
6-10 December 2027: UN Environment Programme Assembly (UNEA8), Nairobi, Kenya
11-22 January 2027: First BBNJ Conference of the Parties, New York, USA
13-24 March 2027: INC 5.4, part 4 of the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an internationally binding instrument on plastic pollution
ocean reports & latest publications
Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network: Status of Coral Reefs of the World 2025 - September 2026
UNEP: Transitioning to a Sustainable Blue Economy: A Practical Framework - June 2026
IMO: International Code of Safety for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS code) - May 2026
United Nations: The Third World Ocean Assessment - 2026
World Ocean Review: Marine Biodiversity - 2026
IOC: The Integrated Ocean Carbon Research (IOC‑R) Report - February 2026
NGO Shipbreaking Platform: The Toxic Tide 2025 Shipbreaking Records - February 2026
IISD: State of Global Environmental Governance 2025 - February 2026
Ocean Visions: Phytoplankton Carbon Solutions - February 2026
World Economic Forum: The Ocean Economy Imperative: Defining Value, Managing Risk and Mobilizing Investment - January 2026
PEW: Breaking the Plastic Wave 2025 - December 2025
GOOS: Global Ocean Observing System Status Report 2025 - November 2025
ROCA: 2024-2025 Roadmap to Oceans and Climate Action (ROCA) Report - November 2025
UN DESA: Ocean Action Newsletter - November 2025
EU Copernicus: The 9th edition of the EU Copernicus Ocean State Report (OSR) - October 2025
UNCTAD: Maritime Transport Review 2025 - September 2025
CORAL: Strategic Plan 2025-2030 - June 2025
Antarctic Avengers: All Eyes on Antarctica - June 2025
State of the World’s Sea Turtles (SWOT) Report - June 2025
UNIDiR: Achieving Depth: Subsea Telecommunications Cables as Critical Infrastructure - April 2025
OECD: The Ocean Economy to 2050 - March 2025
WMO: The State of the Global Climate 2024 - March 2025
United Nations Secretary-General Report on Oceans and the Law of the Sea 2025 - March 2025
UNCTAD: The ocean economy is booming. But for how long? - February 2025
WRI: How Marine Carbon Removal Is Governed in the High Seas - February 2025
ISA: Status of Exploration Activities in the Area - December 2024
Planet Tracker: Race to the bottom - November 2024
UNIDIR: Securing the Seas: A Comprehensive Assessment of Global Maritime Security - November 2024
Protected Planet Report 2024 - October 2024
ICRI Forum: Key asks for coral reefs - October 2024
Let’s Be Nice to the Ocean: Advancing the Protection Principle - October 2024
WWF: 2024 Living Planet Report: A System in Peril - October 2024
ASOC: Protecting a Changing Southern Ocean - October 2024
2024 Ocean Decade Conference - The Barcelona Statement - October 2024
Oceano Azul / Europe Jaques Delors: Manifesto for a European Ocean Pact - September 2024
Global Mangrove Alliance: State of the World’s Mangroves 2024 - July 2024
Peace for the Ocean Declaration - June 2024
IOC State of the Ocean Report 2024 - June 2024
Global Ghost Gear Initiative 2023 - June 2024
Statista/German Ocean Foundation State of the oceans 2024 - June 2024
State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2024
The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable ocean, Nathan J. Bennett / Elisa Morgera / David Boyd - April 2024
The Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing Index Report - December 2023
