Tag: save the oceans

Actions and News: Tell the Biden administration to stop deep sea mining

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The 28th Session of the International Seabed Authority started on March 7th in Jamaica. If you don’t know what this is you are probably not alone. Unfortunately these are the entities that regulate the future of our oceans based on commercial interests. We need to show that we are aware of what is happening and we have an opinion.

Keep the pressure on!

Click HERE to sign the Greenpeace petition and tell the Biden administration to ban deep sea mining.

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Actions and News: Agreement reached at the UN conference on marine biodiversity

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An agreement was reached at the UN Fifth Intergovernmental Conference, or IGC5, to protect Oceans’ biodiversity.

Thank you to all who signed the petition. Below is the link to Greenpeace press release.

Historic UN Ocean Treaty agreed

Keep the pressure on!

Stop buying fish from grocery stores that disregard basic environmental and human right protections. Click HERE to sign the Greenpeace petition to US giant grocery store chains to stop selling tuna linked to environmental destruction.

Do you want to know where your grocery store stands in the tuna scorecard? Check out here the Greenpeace report to find out. You need to place your cursor on the image and advance the pages at the bottom of the image. The report scorecard is on page 4. Think of this report next time you want to buy tuna!

The High Cost of Cheap Tuna: US Supermarkets, Sustainability, and Human Rights at Sea

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Actions and News: UN conference on marine biodiversity resumes in NY

Welcome to YouChoose, a blog about individual climate action.

The UN Fifth Intergovernmental Conference, or IGC5, to protect Oceans’ biodiversity is underway in New York.

https://www.un.org/bbnj/

Here is a WWF article that explains why it is important that we protect oceans from destruction. Click on the link below to go the WWF article:

https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?7704966/high-seas-treaty-2023

Grocery stores are largely responsible for relying on supply chains that disregard the environment as well as human rights.

What can we do?

We can stop buying fish from grocery stores that disregard basic environmental and human right protections. Click HERE to sign the Greenpeace petition to US giant grocery store chains to stop selling tuna linked to environmental destruction.

Do you want to know where your grocery store stands in the tuna scorecard? Check out here the Greenpeace report to find out. You need to place your cursor on the image and advance the pages at the bottom of the image. The report scorecard is on page 4. Think of this report next time you want to buy tuna!

The High Cost of Cheap Tuna: US Supermarkets, Sustainability, and Human Rights at Sea

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