Only the ocean can absorb more carbon than all the earth's rainforest combined, be home to over 260,000 different species, and provide millions of people in coastal communities around the world with a livelihood.
The ocean is essential for the survival of all living things. But it is at a breaking point after decades of industrial fishing, drilling and plastic pollution.
We depend on the ocean for a healthy and stable climate, and for food and water. It sustains all humanity and countless other species that call the earth home. But destructive fishing methods like bottom trawling, oil and gas exploration, plastic waste and the increase of global temperatures are destroying it at a rate like never before.
We believe that big companies should not get to profit at the expense of our ocean. We're fighting every day to use the law to protect the ocean from corporate greed, and to restore and safeguard it for our future generations. Now, we need your help.
Together we can protect the ocean we all rely on. #OnlytheOcean.
What can I do?
On 15th April we hosted a live webinar focusing on how the law can be used to protect our ocean.
ClientEarth lawyers shed light on the urgent threats to our ocean and the innovative legal work being done to protect it. We discussed the critical challenges of industrial fishing, drilling, and plastic pollution, and how ClientEarth is driving change to restore and safeguard the ocean for future generations.
We’re holding the EU accountable for overfishing and illegal fishing and ensuring illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing is eliminated from seafood markets.
