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Starting 2023 with fresh energy and focus on outreach!
We hope you all had a good start into the new year. 2022 saw some important events and decisions, for example the COP15 in Montreal on stopping mass extinction of biodiversity. Politicians reached a crucial agreement and made a landmark declaration to implement protected areas on 30% of the ocean and 30% of the land by 2030. But we all know that it is hard enough to move red lines…
COP27 to muster political will for climate action and ocean protection
Throughout October we remained focused on small-scale fisheries (SSF) in the last quarter of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA2022) to keep delivering our contributions to overdue recognition of small-scale fisheries as an important producer of food in uncertain times, but also as a bread winner for millions and a way of life deeply appreciative of marine and inland water cultures. Vedi Newsletter
NewsLetter Mundus Maris – September 2022
On the upside in September we had inspiring meetings bundling the voices of small-scale fishers and showing with good examples of collective action what’s possible when they stand together, work on solutions and seek to broaden alliances. This was the case at the SSF Summit in Rome supported by the FAO and the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) which then carried its findings and demands forward to the…
Fresh resolve as a result of the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon
Molti di noi convivono con quella che gli esperti chiamano “dissonanza cognitiva”: sappiamo perfettamente che dovremmo porre fine alla pesca eccessiva e alle emissioni sfrenate di gas climatici in modo da raggiungere gli obiettivi concordati degli obiettivi di sviluppo sostenibile e dell’accordo di Parigi sul clima.  Vedi NewsLetter