High Seas Alliance Archives - Ocean and Coastal Futures

14 Apr 2026

High Seas Treaty PrepCom concludes with progress and unresolved tensions

Photo by Nik Shuliahin The third and final preparatory commission for the High Seas Treaty concluded on 2 April at the United Nations headquarters in New York, wrapping up two weeks of intensive negotiations that the High Seas Alliance described as delivering meaningful progress, but also leaving several significant issues unresolved ahead of the treaty’s first Conference […]

01 Aug 2017

Possible Treaty for the High Seas UN Headquarters – Final Round of Negotiations this week

News

Countries meet at UN Headquarters in New York for the final round of negotiations toward a possible treaty for the high seas, a new scientific review of recent ocean research has been launched to show the importance of ocean resources to humans. The report, authored by scholars at the University of Oxford for the High Seas Alliance, […]