The U.S. National Marine Sanctuary Foundation will honor Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Rep. Ed Case (D-Hawaii), Solomon Pili Kahoʻohalahala and William J. Ailā Jr. at the 2023 Ocean Awards Gala on June 8 as part of Capitol Hill Ocean Week.
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The webinar “Washington Round Table on Public Policy: The Governance Challenge of Deep Seabed Mineral Mining” will take place July 22 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. EST. Conn Nugent, senior fellow at the Ocean Foundation and former program director of the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Seabed Mining Project, will discuss recent developments in the governance of deep seabed mineral mining. The
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UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the European Commission launched MSPGlobal, a new global project on maritime spatial planning. The project aims to promote better maritime spatial planning with attention to avoiding conflicts and improving the governance of human activities at sea such as aquaculture, tourism, marine energy and exploitation of the seabed. The three-year MSPglobal project aims to develop
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