I have been «gone fishing» for the last few days so most of the week's developments were in a catch - all post that ranged from Sanofi's further branching out into generics to a Dalhousie study
on global fisheries management.
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its latest report
on global fisheries and aquaculture with no new 2008 catch and production figures, as the agency continues to piece together 2007 data.
Not exact matches
At that same time, the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Control's Fourth Assessment Report called climate change an «unequivocal» threat to humanity's stability; extinction rates were accelerating; dry regions were becoming more arid; and
global fisheries were collapsing.
In its most recent report
on the state of
global fisheries, the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization warned that 90 percent of the world's fish stocks are fully or overfished, and increasing production to meet the world's growing demand for animal protein can't be done in a sustainable manner.
By 2025, based
on price, availability, quality, customer demand, and unique regulatory environments across our
global retail markets, Walmart U.S., Sam's Club, and Walmart Canada will require all canned light and white tuna suppliers to source from
fisheries who are:
By 2025, based
on price, availability, quality, customer demand, and unique regulatory environments across our
global retail markets, Walmart U.S., Sam's Club, ASDA, Walmart Canada, Walmart Brazil, Walmart Mexico, and Walmart Central America will require all fresh and frozen, farmed and wild seafood suppliers to source from
fisheries who are:
But when current growth leads to growing ozone holes, progressive
global warming, the exhaustion of soils, and the disappearance of wetlands and
fisheries, costs are being imposed
on the future.
CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman,
Global Forum
on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair,
Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries, Republic of South Africa
Global Food Networking also prides itself
on sourcing their seafood from fair trade, artisanal
fisheries, and partnering with processors and packagers that are HACCP certified.
Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman,
Global Forum
on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair,
Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries, Republic of South Africa
Alexander, who includes adviser to U2 singer Bono
on global poverty among his portfolio of jobs, also called for EU powers over
fisheries and agriculture to be handed to Holyrood post-Brexit and backed Gordon Brown's call for a constitutional convention to consider further devolution to the nations and regions of the UK.
Economic driving forces such as increasing
global demand for fish or improved fishing methods will lead in future to increased
fishery pressure
on the most popular types of edible fish.
As former lead of the World Bank's
global program for
fisheries and aquaculture, he said these indicators could be very useful for institutions like the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and nongovernmental organizations that fund projects
on fisheries reform in developing countries to monitor and evaluate progress.
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Global fisheries to be,
on average, 20 percent less productive in 2300, UCI study finds: Warming - induced plankton growth near Antarctica will impair marine food chain.»
Johansen and
fisheries biologists from the University of Copenhagen and James Cook University collaborated
on the study, published in the journal
Global Change Biology.
«This broken
global cycle may weaken ecosystem health,
fisheries, and agriculture,» says Joe Roman, a biologist at the University of Vermont and co-author
on the new study.
«This is the best attempt, published to date, to bring together the available data to quantify
fisheries impacts
on sharks at a
global scale,» says John Musick, a shark expert at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester Point.
Existing analyses of
global fisheries operations have, however, so far largely focused
on the role of countries, rather than industry corporations.
Scientists have discovered that rising ocean temperatures slow the development of baby fish around the equator, raising concerns about the impact of
global warming
on fish and
fisheries in the tropics.
She is also a Nereus fellow, which means she is part of the collaborative Nereus program between six leading marine science institutes with the aim of undertaking research that advances our comprehensive understandings of the
global ocean systems across the natural and social sciences, from oceanography and marine ecology to
fisheries economics and impacts
on coastal communities.
I will also present a research plan to move forward beyond the likely effects of near - future
global change
on Indo - Pacific coral reef and
fisheries species.
Data currently being collected about the impact
on Lake Turkana's food web and
fisheries from hydroelectric and agriculture projects may prove vital to a growing
global population whose fresh water sources have become increasingly taxed.
In general, as fishing fleets have
global reach some seafood that reaches our shores depletes stocks in areas that depend
on traditional and more sustainable
fisheries, and can cause human suffering.
Whereas five types of surface (cultivated areas, pastures, forests,
fisheries and built environment), planet Earth has approximately 13.4 billion
global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water according to 2010 data from the Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.sht
global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water according to 2010 data from the
Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.sht
Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7
global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.sht
global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people
on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available
on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtml >].
of Ag, Forestry &
Fisheries Kuntoro Mangkusubroto — Indonesia, Head of the President's Unit
on REDD Jonathan Pershing — U.S., Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change Norbert Röttgen — Germany, Minister for Environment Eric Solheim — Norway, Minister of the Environment Kjetil Lund — Norway, Secretary of State, Ministry of Finance Andrew Steer — World Bank Special Envoy for Climate Change Jason Clay — World Wildlife Fund - US, Senior VP Sean de Cleene — Yara International, VP
Global Business Initiatives Larry Schweiger — National Wildlife Federation, President and CEO Peter Seligmann — Conservation International, CEO and Chairman Puvan Selvanathan — Roundtable
on Sustainable Palm Oil, VP The Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton — U.S. Secretary of State, video message Wanjira Maathai — International Liaison, the Green Belt Movement Helen Clark — Administrator, UNDP, frmr.
Several projects were successfully completed or reached significant milestones, including: First time in 100 years that the
global population of wild tigers has increased, with 60 % growth where WWF - Canada works
on tiger conservation in Nepal; first ever certified sustainable cod
fishery in Canada; first ever national measure of the health of our freshwater ecosystems reaching 75 % completion; and, end of oil exploration interests near Arctic's Lancaster Sound region
Working with NOAA and The Nature Conservancy, her master's thesis group project evaluated management scenarios in the California commercial swordfish
fishery, focusing
on balancing conservation and economic goals through a
global lens.
And the situation is far worse than one of «we are beginning to experience the effects of
global warming AND peak oil AND
fishery colapse, and so
on.»
The most comprehensive
global evaluation of
fisheries bycatch impacts
on large marine species, published this month in the journal Ecosphere, revealed that sea turtle populations in the East Pacific, North Atlantic, Southwest Atlantic, and Mediterranean face higher bycatch and mortality rates.
Knowing where and when a given species is being taken from the ocean allows for a much better assessment of
fisheries management
on a
global scale.
RELATED CAMPAIGNS • Endangered Species Act • Coral Conservation • Endangered Oceans • Oceans Program • Climate Law Institute •
Fisheries • Climate Change Is Here Now •
Global Warming and Life
on Earth
Ficke, A. D., C. A. Myrick, and L. J. Hansen, 2007: Potential impacts of
global climate change
on freshwater
fisheries.
Bridlington, Whitby, and other English coastal towns have long depended
on the North Sea
fishery for food and income.2 But
global warming is affecting plankton and changing the marine food chain, compounding the pressures of overfishing.3 The resulting disruption of the ecosystem could damage the fishing industry and hurt North Sea coastal communities from the United Kingdom to Scandinavia.
Launched in September 2016 as a collaboration between Google, Oceana and remote sensing company SkyTruth,
Global Fishing crunches data
on the location of commercial fishing fleets gathered from onboard transmitters to detect evidence of overfishing that has resulted in the decimation of
fisheries worldwide.
The scope of this chapter, with a focus
on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and
fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate,
global and regional food security, forestry and
fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry,
fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.
Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference
on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution
on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects
on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration
on Furthering the Implementation of the
Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human heal
Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting
on the Implementation of the
Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human heal
Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a
global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human heal
global partnership
on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention
on Biological Diversity
on addressing the impacts of marine debris
on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have
on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources,
fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.
I rarely post
on this site but feel compelled to based
on comment # 13 above, specifically the following paragraph: «Restoring open ocean plankton populations to known 1980 levels of health would not only annually sequester at minimum 3 ~ 4 billion tons of atmospheric CO2 (or half our
global warming surplus today), it would regenerate tens of billions of tons of missing nourishment for
fisheries, seabirds and marine mammals.»
of Ag, Forestry &
Fisheries Kuntoro Mangkusubroto — Indonesia, Head of the President's Unit
on REDD Jonathan Pershing — U.S., Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change Norbert Röttgen — Germany, Minister for Environment Eric Solheim — Norway, Minister of the Environment Kjetil Lund — Norway, Secretary of State, Ministry of Finance Andrew Steer — World Bank Special Envoy for Climate Change Jason Clay — World Wildlife Fund - US, Senior VP Sean de Cleene — Yara International, VP
Global Business Initiatives Larry Schweiger — National Wildlife Federation, President and CEO Peter Seligmann — Conservation International, CEO and Chairman Puvan Selvanathan — Roundtable
on Sustainable Palm Oil, VP The Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton — U.S. Secretary of State, video message Wanjira Maathai — International Liaison, the Green Belt Movement Helen Clark — Administrator, UNDP, frmr.
High confidence that due to glacier mass loss there will be related impacts
on hydropower production, ocean circulation,
fisheries, and
global sea level rise.
Because natural variability is so great relative to
global change, and the time horizon
on capital replacement (e.g., ships and plants) is so short, impacts
on fisheries can be easily overstated, and there will likely be relatively small economic and food supply consequences so long as no major fish stocks collapse
Species that depend
on the sea are reacting more quickly to
global warming than land - based life, according to a study in scientific journal Nature Climate Change, with implications for
fisheries and food supplies.
Climate Change Will Cost U.S. States Billions of Dollars
Global Fisheries Hit by Climate Change and Overfishing Brits Break Silence
on Population - Climate Change Links
The impact of upstream catch and
global warming
on the grey mullet
fishery in Taiwan: A non-cooperative game analysis.