Ocean and Climate Security

This category of blogs offers a mix of own contributions and a number of reviews mostly of highly relevant events to keep us current on the connection of major challenges and responses bridging global and local. It touches on many governance opportunities for more citizen engagement and blending scientific and empirical knowledges of practitioners to enable robust solutions.

Mundus maris contribution to the UNOC3 public consultation

Mundus maris contribution to the UNOC3 public consultation

The 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) is scheduled for June 2025 in Nice, France. Costa Rica and France are the co-organisers. UNOC3 is to [...]

Sustainable Management of Marine Resources – Challenges and Possible Solutions

Sustainable Management of Marine Resources – Challenges and Possible Solutions

Fish Party and Mundus maris have several years of cooperation under their belt in the effort to address the challenges to people active in the fisheries [...]

Mundus maris Concert 2024 in Belgium: Oceanic Echoes

Mundus maris Concert 2024 in Belgium: Oceanic Echoes

On May 21, 2024, in honour of UNESCO Day and World Ocean Day (June 8, 2024), Mundus maris asbl presented the "Oceanic Echoes" concert, performed by [...]

Visiting the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

Visiting the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) is an independent judicial body established by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of [...]

Where skies and seas meet: Climate and ocean interdependence in policy making

Where skies and seas meet: Climate and ocean interdependence in policy making

Over the last 50+ years, the International Ocean Institute (IOI) has been conducting training and capacity building in Ocean Governance with the aim of creating knowledgeable [...]

Mundus maris at Boot 2024 – Great success!

Mundus maris at Boot 2024 – Great success!

Beating earlier records, the 'love your ocean' platform to promote the seven principles of the UN Ocean Decade was present with more than 60 partners [...]

Science and how to use it in a changing world

Science and how to use it in a changing world

On 27 October, fisheries biologist Cornelia E. Nauen visited Leiden University (LU) to give the 7th Environmental Humanities LU talk about her work with Mundus [...]

Belgian Ocean Decade Committee reviews its programme

Belgian Ocean Decade Committee reviews its programme

Maria del Carmen Patricia Morales represents Mundus maris asbl in the Belgian Ocean Decade Committee. The Committee which provides scientific guidance met for its last session of [...]

Towards a global network of MPAs for ocean governance

Towards a global network of MPAs for ocean governance

Marine protected areas (MPAs) rightly attract more attention as international biodiversity agreements see them as major instruments to stop mass species extinctions and recover ocean [...]

Mundus maris supports Climate marches, 15 and 17 September 2023

Mundus maris supports Climate marches, 15 and 17 September 2023

This was a great day for climate protection. On 15 September, 250,000 people turned out in 250 cities and towns in Germany alone demanding Climate [...]