16 Sep 2025

Matthew TenBruggencate   The UK Government has launched the parliamentary process to ratify the High Seas Treaty, a landmark international agreement designed to protect biodiversity in areas of the ocean beyond national jurisdiction. Announcing the move, the Foreign Office minister Seema Malhotra said: “Our oceans are under pressure, it’s undeniable. Unsustainable fishing, global warming, pollution—all threaten to deplete the […]

18 Jan 2022

In a speech to the Coastal Futures Conference in January 2021, Environment Minister Rebecca Pow declared 2021 to be a ‘Marine Super Year’, stating that the UK would use its presidency of COP26 to lead calls to restore the marine environment to health. The Minister stressed that global leadership ‘‘really starts with our ambition and […]