Sixteen children from across the world are petitioning the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to hold five of the world’s leading economic powers accountable for inaction...
A coalition of Pacific island nations wants to raise $500m (£400m) to make all shipping in the Pacific Ocean zero carbon by the middle of the century. The Pacific Blue...
It will be the clearest declaration yet on how an overheating world is hammering our oceans and frozen regions. Scientists have been meeting in Monaco to finalise a report on...
Tahitian va'a Fa'afaite has arrived in New Zealand to join the Tuia 250 fleet on its three-month voyage around Aotearoa. The voyage is a celebration of New Zealand's Pacific seafaring...
American researchers are calling for the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Committee to ban trans-shipping.The Pew Charitable Trust said tens of millions of dollars each year was lost to the...
The Pacific Islands are one of the most endangered regions on earth due to climate change. Countries in the collective are now pushing to decarbonise their own maritime sectors and...
At the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York today a host of top shipowners, managers, ports, banks and shippers have vowed to get commercially viable zero emission vessels...
One day after the EU signalled it may increase its pledge to the Paris Agreement, eight of its member states have signed a call for raised climate ambition. A joint declaration was issued in...
The upgrade of Samoa's Apia Port will make it more efficient and more environmentally sustainable, Samoa's Minister of Finance, Sili Epa Tuioti, says.The Samoa Observer reported the upgrade was being...
NYK has become the first Japanese shipping company to complete a carbon-neutral voyage by offsetting 5,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), equivalent to the CO2 emitted by NYK’s environmental flagship...
The shipping industry will miss the climate change reduction targets set by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) unless it ‘future-proofs’ newbuilds and continues to invest. According to new research from...
The Northern Hemisphere just had its hottest summer on record since 1880, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data released Monday. NOAA found the average global surface temperature taken...
