Life Below Water

Sustainable Development Goal
  The WEF’s Tuna Traceability Declaration comes into force this year – a crucial step towards stemming illegal fishing that harms both ecosystems and economies Source: World Economic Forum |...
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The co-facilitators of the 2020 UN Ocean Conference preparatory process announced agreement on eight themes for interactive dialogues during the Conference. The UN Secretary-General will begin preparing concept notes on...
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The gap between the rich and the poor is larger than previously thought. Globally, the poorest 20 per cent of any given country needs an average of more than 11...
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Why Global Citizens Should Care Plastic pollution has become an environmental crisis. The United Nations urges countries to restrict plastic production and better recycle existing plastic to prevent further harm...
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Juan cut the engine and we drifted across Laguna Fernández, its mirror-flat surface reflecting cotton-wool clouds, the silence broken only by the raucous cry of a crested screamer. Soon, a...
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A prosthetic allows the jellyfish to swim three times faster. When combined with sensors, they could measure ocean conditions such as temperature, salinity, acidity, oxygen levels, nutrients and microbial communities....
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A waste management firm in Nova Scotia is giving discarded single-use items new life as synthetic timbers, rails and fence posts. Source: World Economic Forum | Agenda | feed
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Tunisia has announced plans to stop its supermarkets and pharmacies from using single-use plastic bags from next month before phasing them out completely in 2021. Plastic pollution has been a...
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The World Ocean Summit will bring together a global group of policymakers, business and civil society leaders, investors, scientists and entrepreneurs to debate and develop new ideas on how to decouple economic growth...
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Mr. Sukhdev, who received the award alongside conservation biologist Gretchen C. Daily, was the Special Adviser and Head of UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative, a major project launched by then-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, to demonstrate that greening of...
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