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Setting the course for a sustainable blue planet, an update of the international ocean governance agenda - Related links

Reference document from the Commission:

SWD(2022) 174 final - JOINT COMMUNICATION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS - Setting the course for a sustainable blue planet - Joint Communication on the EU’s International Ocean Governance agenda

European Parliament:

• The Blue Economy – Overview and EU policy framework
• Briefing - EU action on ocean governance and achieving SDG 14
• Briefing - A sustainable blue planet – The international ocean governance agenda
• Briefing - EU climate action in ocean governance and fisheries policy
• Briefing - WTO negotiations on fishery subsidies
• Briefing - Single-use plastics and fishing gear: Reducing marine litter
• Briefing - Offshore wind energy in Europe
• Briefing - EU strategy for offshore renewable energy
• Briefing - European ports becoming 'fit for 55'
• Briefing - Sustainable maritime fuels - 'Fit for 55' package: the FuelEU Maritime proposal
• Briefing - A sustainable blue planet – The international ocean governance agenda: Pre-legislative synthesis of national, regional and local positions on the European Commission's initiative

European Council:

• REGULATION (EU) No 1257/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 November 2013 on ship recycling and amending Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 and Directive 2009/16/EC
• Press release - International ocean governance: an agenda for the future of our oceans

European Commission:

• International ocean governance
• The EU blue economy report 2022
• The EU blue economy report 2021
• The EU blue economy report 2020
• JOIN/2016/049 final - JOINT COMMUNICATION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS International ocean governance: an agenda for the future of our oceans
• Protecting the ocean, time for action - High Ambition Coalition on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction
• Press release - Fisheries: Commission proposes second package of crisis measures to support fishery and aquaculture sectors

Other documents and articles:

• European Environment Agency - Ocean governance

• Jacques Delors Thinking Europe - Inter-national ocean governance in need of EU leadership
• Jacques Delors Thinking Europe - Ocean protection - Designing policies and supporting action at the EU-level for the restoration and protection of the ocean, seas, coastal and inland waters
• Jacques Delors Thinking Europe - A few notes of optimism before the summer break and three S’s for the Ocean
• Nature Communications - New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding
• ILO 08.12.2020 - Resolution concerning maritime labour issues and the COVID-19 pandemic
• IUCN World Conservation Congress - Protection of deep-ocean ecosystems and biodiversity through a moratorium on seabed mining
• World Economic Forum - Decision-Making on Deep-Sea Mineral Stewardship: A Supply Chain Perspective
• International Maritime Organization - Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter
• UNESCO and European Commission launch new flagship guide on Marine/Maritime Spatial Planning
• WISE-Marine provides access to information and data on the state of Europe’s seas…
• Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service
• Video: There is no ocean B. What we must do to restore our blue planet

A few links in Italian:

• AlternativaSostenibile - Governance inter-nazionale degli oceani: il contributo dell'UE nel definire la rotta verso un pianeta blu
• TED Talks 2020 - POSIZIONE E ROTTA. IL RUOLO DEGLI OCEANI NEL CLIMA DEL FUTURO | Sandro Carniel