A healthy ocean, a protected climate
From Bonn to Antalya: What the 2026 Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue Means for COP31 Every June since 2020, governments, scientists, and civil society have gathered in Bonn for the Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue – the only space fully dedicated to the ocean within the Climate Convention (UNFCCC). The seventh edition of the Dialogue,…
POLICY BRIEF Navigating Hopes and Threats: How Precaution Should Guide Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Research and Governance Today, the Ocean & Climate Platform releases its new Policy Brief on marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR), built on its latest scientific publications and reflecting a commitment to a precautionary approach to mCDR, grounded in scientific integrity, environmental…
Knowledge dissemination report Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies: Hopes and Threats As part of the Paris Agreement, nations have committed to limiting global warming to 2°C or even 1.5°C. In most climate scenarios, carbon neutrality is reached via the rapid decarbonisation of economies, supplemented by large-scale CO₂ capture and storage. These approaches are referred to as…
The report comes as six countries join the Blue NDC Challenge at COP30 to accelerate ocean action in national climate commitments – including Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Indonesia, Portugal and Singapore Belém, Brazil (November 18, 2025) – The ocean is increasingly being recognized in national climate plans – but most countries are still overlooking the most…
Belém, Brazil – France and Brazil today took a bold step to place the ocean at the forefront of climate action, announcing support for the creation of an ‘Ocean Taskforce’ – The Blue NDC Implementation Taskforce – a global mechanism designed to accelerate the integration of ocean-based solutions into national climate plans, as a direct…
From 10 to 21 November 2025, the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place in Belém, Brazil. Ten years after the Paris Agreement, this conference marks the transition from negotiation to implementation, as countries are expected to submit new, more ambitious Nationally Determined…