Working collaboratively to promote ocean understanding and protection and to accelerate ocean-related solutions to the climate crisis.
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Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
Reminder to register for this webinar next week! Panelists will speak on the connections between BBNJ and climate, as well as key opportunities to address climate change when implementing the BBNJ Agreement. tinyurl.com/3r8c98ep
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
🌊 Save the Date📅
"Report Launch Event - The Ocean is a Solution to Climate Change: Updated Opportunities for Action"
🗓️ 21st September 2023
⏰ 15:00 - 16:30 EDT (UTC-4)
📍 Scandinavia House, NYC & Online
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
Ratings Agency Fitch: as biodiversity becomes increasingly relevant across financial markets, high-risk activities such as seabed extraction are likely to fall out of favour with investors.
eco-business.com/news/biodiv…
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
📍🇯🇲#DeepSeaMining would cause irreversible damage to one of our planet’s last remaining wilderness areas and the extinction of species. Countries at the #ISA must say no to #DeepSeaMining - it is not needed, wanted or worth the risk!
#DefendTheDeep #ISA28
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
We're starting a new chapter in our Ocean grantmaking @PackardFdn! Protecting the ocean for people and the planet. packard.org/insights/perspec…
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
📣Applications now open for our Launchpad program! This is an outstanding opportunity for ocean-based #CDR innovators to receive expert advice to optimize technologies and measure, understand, and minimize environmental effects. June 8 deadline. Please RT! oceanvisions.org/launchpad/a…
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
Are you researching the effects of cultivating and sinking seaweed for carbon sequestration purposes? Our new interactive database of funding opportunities for related research may help advance your efforts. Please RT! 🌊oceanvisions.org/seaweedrese…
#OceanClimateAction
#CDR
#seaweed
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
🚨Paper Alert !🚨
Hybridizing #Research and #DecisionMaking as a path toward #sustainability in marine spaces.
#OpenAccess in @Nature_NPJ
Ocean Sustainability : doi.org/10.1038/s44183-023-0…
#CNRSocean
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
International NGOs call out Norwegian Prime Minister’s mistaken claim that deep-sea mining can be done without harming ocean life
@Greenpeace @FaunaFloraInt @SOAlliance
@DeepSeaConserve @ejfoundation @TBA21Academy @SABIMAnorge @Naturvern @Oceans_North
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Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
Deep-sea mining for rare metals will destroy ecosystems, say scientists theguardian.com/environment/…
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
12 states have already taken positions against #DeepSeaMining.
Ahead of @IMPAC5Canada, we urge Canada 🇨🇦 @JustinTrudeau @JoyceMurray @melaniejoly @JonathanWNV to show leadership on protecting marine biodiversity and preventing DSM from receiving the greenlight at #ISA27.
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
The DSCC challenges governments to protect the ocean from top to bottom in the wake of the new #CBD #COP15 #Biodiversity Framework, by calling for a stop to #DeepSeaMining and a ban on bottom trawling on global seamounts.
Full press release here: bit.ly/3v3Sr0g
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
In the midst of a biodiversity crisis, world leaders have come together to forge a historic agreement to protect nature. As with the climate crisis, we must push to ensure that these bold pledges are met with swift action. #COP15 nytimes.com/2022/12/19/clima…
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The largest Norwegian private asset manager, Storebrand has divested from @themetalsco demonstrating its reaffirmed commitment to halting and reversing the loss of biodiversity #NoDeepSeaMining @DeepSeaConserve @pacblueline @BobbiJo_Dobush READ 👉 bit.ly/3utQ1I0
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
Meet the 2023 #BlueParks Nominees! #BlueParkAwards recognize outstanding contributions to marine conservation, and you can share your thoughts on the nominees for this honor today! tinyurl.com/BlueParks
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
France's position is unprecedented and clear: no mining in the deep seabed.
Neither in international waters nor in French waters.
Not today nor tomorrow.
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
La jeunesse du monde entier nous regarde.
Mon appel à la COP 27 : xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1vAxRAeZe…
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
"#DeepSeaMining would put even more pressure on the oceans and irreparably destroy ecosystems. That is why, as a first step, we are calling for a pause to prevent any rash decisions at the expense of the marine environment." – Minister @SteffiLemke #ISA27 theguardian.com/environment/…
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
The mining industry sets their sights on the deep sea, posing a new, unprecedented climate threat.
"Seldom do we have an opportunity to stop an environmental crisis before it begins. This is one of those opportunities," write @SylviaEarle and @dan_kammen ti.me/3SAvbAo
Blue Climate Initiative retweeted
"We know more about the surface of the moon than the depths of the ocean"
@SylviaEarle and I join the call for a moratorium on deep seabed mining. @IUCN @BlueClimate @antonioguterres @pewenvironment
Our assessment, published in @TIME lays out the case
time.com/6224508/deep-sea-mi…