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Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners and Managers

by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Dec 5, 2017

  • Cyprus approves national MSP law
  • IOC UNESCO website summarizes MSP status of countries around the world
  • France launches Europe’s second floating wind turbines initiative
  • Key outcomes and talking points from UN climate conference summarized (Read another high-level assessment of status and outcomes here)
  • US national climate assessment provides comprehensive assessment of climate science and affirms climate change caused by human activity
  • Final report of European MSP for Blue Growth conference released
  • UN releases comprehensive report on global pollution, its impacts, and how to address it
  • European Commission calls for proposals for blue technologies, strategies and technologies for addressing marine litter, and blue networks and the blue economy in the Mediterranean
  • 2017 global ocean health assessment scores released – global ocean health remains relatively steady

And for a change of pace, check out David Attenborough’s interactive web tour of the Great Barrier Reef through space and time.

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