China Dialogue: Cold fish: the global cooling effect of ocean life
Fish contribute about 16% of the carbon that ultimately sinks into the ocean’s deeper layers. If fish are such a prominent carbon sink, a natural store lowering the concentration of...
Before Commissioner heads for beach, EU citizens provide him with demand to “Save the Ocean, Save the Climate, End Overfishing”
The Our Fish campaign presented a petition signed by EU citizens - and a colourful beach towel - to the European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius...
Reaction to EU Fit for 55: Energy Taxation Directive and Fossil Fuel Subsidies for the Fishing Industry
Why does the fishing industry get a free pass when everyone else has to pay the true price of carbon pollution and environmental destruction?
EU fisheries ministers condemned for seeking loopholes rather than a robust Control Regulation
Following today’s adoption of the EU AGRIFISH Council position on future fisheries controls, the EU Fisheries Control Coalition condemned the failure of ambition demonstrated by fisheries ministers. The Coalition urges...
Businesses and NGOs Demand End to EU Tax Exemptions for Fossil Fuels
More than 40 businesses, think tanks and NGOs today called on the EU to eliminate vast and continuing subsidies to fossil fuels, which the group say run directly counter to...
EU Must Respond to Baltic Sea Ecosystem and Fisheries Crash with Urgent, Radical Measures
- Responding to today's publication of annual scientific advice for 2022 EU fishing limits for the Baltic Sea by ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) [1], a...
Undercurrent: NGOs pull up EU commissioner over sustainability claims
On May 12, several NGOs -- including Oceana, ClientEarth, Seas At Risk, Dutch Elasmobranch Society, Sciaena, and Birdwatch Ireland -- sent a letter to Virginijus Sinkevicius, European Commissioner for Environment,...