🗓️ If you're coming to Costa Rica🇨🇷 for 'Immersed in Change', you are invited to our network working session.

We will focus on #RiseUp4TheOcean campaign priorities and how to align our efforts and strategize for impactful advocacy.

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Min. for Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica, H.E. Mr. Arnoldo Andre Tinoco, highlighted Costa Rica's early commitment as a BBNJ signatory.
'The parliament is now reviewing a draft law for official ratification. Together, let's maintain the momentum for a thriving ocean that supports us all.'

The #WTOFishCount stands at 7️⃣2️⃣, still 38 countries to go!

100+ leading scientists are urging WTO Members to take action now to #StopFundingOverfishing . To help recover depleted fisheries, nations must stop #HarmfulFisheriesSubsidies . #RiseUp4TheOcean
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Tiago Pitta e Cunha, CEO of Oceano Azul Foundation, stressed the importance of civil society, foundations, businesses, small-scale fishers, and Indigenous people, joining forces to drive collective action to protect, restore, and equitably govern the ocean 🌊

Our Ocean Greece

Necessity of collaboration and a seat at the table from the start is a key message from ABALOBI during the RISE UP - A Blue Call To Action side event #ourOceanGreece

#OurOcean2024 Press conference: Melissa Wright from Bloomberg Philanthropies Environment stresses the need for equipping civil society organizations with necessary information to hold governments accountable. Very true in terms of advancing #fisheriestransparency too. Our Ocean Greece

📢Ghana Government 🇬🇭announces new MPA covering 700sq km. that will be governed using community based management measures 🌊 #OurOceanGreece #RiseUp4theOcean Blue Ventures #SideEvent

The ocean is for all of us and we need to collaborate and work effectively for the health of our ocean. Powerful words from #Kenya at #OurOcean Greece #Africanleaders #OurOcean

Small-scale fishers need a seat at the table of coral-reef management, says new piece Economist Impact co-written by WCS's Hoyt Peckham at start of Our Ocean Greece. bit.ly/3VUAdNm

A new European pact for the ocean has been directly influenced by the work of ⁦RISE UP - A Blue Call To Action⁩ Great progress and evidence of the power of collective action. ⁦Oceano Azul Foundation⁩ #OurOcean Greece #OurOcean

“30x30 was a crazy idea when it was first suggested and now it is a global commitment. We need to put these ideas on the table and be more visionary to #SaveOurOcean ” #SavingNatureTogether ⁦Fauna & Flora⁩ ⁦RISE UP - A Blue Call To Action⁩ ⁦Our Ocean Greece⁩

“We need to break out of our ocean silo and take the pathway of more resistance. It may be harder but it will have more permanence” It is time for us all to ⁦RISE UP - A Blue Call To Action⁩ as we gather in #Athens for ⁦Our Ocean Greece⁩ #SavingNatureTogether ⁦Kristian Teleki⁩

Governments and funders are increasingly coming together to promote and ensure collaboration but it takes patience! ⁦Rare⁩ #FishForever ⁦RISE UP - A Blue Call To Action⁩ ⁦Our Ocean Greece⁩

Information and knowledge of local fishers can and should be used to guide policy and marine spatial planning to reduce conflicts. Nice example from #southAfrica ⁦ABALOBI⁩ ⁦RISE UP - A Blue Call To Action⁩ #smallscalefishers ⁦Our Ocean Greece⁩

BREAKING: More than half fish quotas agreed by UK are above scientific advice 🚨

The Government’s Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) found that only 46% of catch limits negotiated by UK with EU and countries such as Norway for 2024 are at

States meet this April #INC4 to discuss a #PlasticsTreaty after last session's stalemate.

Without transformative change, a projected 23-37M tonnes of #PlasticWaste will enter our ocean by 2040. A strong, binding treaty is needed by the end of 2024. lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…