SDG14: Life Below Water

The webinar recording for our recent IGD Pacific Seminar presented by Matt Blacka is now available to view.

The UK government has announced a $1.8 million initial contribution to the Global Ocean Accounts Partnership (GOAP), coordinated by UNSW Sydney.

A new report commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy helps to address this gap by proposing a roadmap for economic recovery from COVID-19.

Sustainable Ocean Economy is the bedrock foundation to unleash innovative potential to drive actions on Climate Change and enable a gradual recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.

Oceans and coasts provide major economic opportunities, which will be lost unless we preserve ocean ecosystems and address our climate change crisis.

The Governments of Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu launched a partnership to make shipping in the Pacific Ocean zero carbon by 2050. 

The Pacific Blue Shipping Partnership, announced on Tuesday by the governments of Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu, has set an emissions red

UNSW’s research into tuna populations in the South Pacific will help local governments across the region manage their marine environment, ensuring vital food supplies and sources of income from fishing are sustained for generations to come.