As shareholders of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) gather in London today for their annual meeting, Oceana will take to the surrounding streets, calling on the company to commit to more reusable packaging. Although the Coca-Cola Company pledged in 2022 to reach 25% reusable packaging by 2030, CCEP — the world’s largest bottler and seller of … Read more
Oceana successfully completed its first of three ocean research expeditions launched in the United States in partnership with prestigious Swiss watchmaker Blancpain around the Channel Islands off Southern California. From April 29 through May 3, aboard the 62-foot diving vessel, “Peace”, the expedition team explored and documented the biodiversity that makes these waters globally important. The … Read more
The European Parliament today voted to formally adopt a new regulation which establishes reusable packaging requirements for beverages. The targets for reusable beverage packaging are a minimum of 10% by 2030, and 40% by 2040. The new law, “The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation” (PPWR), once in force, will apply to the 27 countries of … Read more
Set gillnets threaten wildlife in Southern California waters. Here’s why.
Oceana’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce it has appointed James (Jim) Simon as the next Chief Executive Officer of Oceana. This announcement follows an extensive eight-month global search and the upcoming retirement of Andrew Sharpless, Oceana’s longtime CEO. “With the choice of Jim Simon as the organization’s new CEO, Oceana continues in its … Read more
Illegal wildlife trade threatens thousands of species, including mammals, birds, fish, and even plants. These species are harvested and sold for a variety of purposes — food, traditional medicine, ornamental plants, and exotic pets, to name a few. The impact of illegal wildlife trade reaches as far as the oceans, where marine animals and their … Read more
Today, Oceana released a new report, “Amazon’s United States of Plastic,” which estimates that Amazon generated 208 million pounds of plastic packaging waste for all transactions in the United States in 2022, a 9.6% increase over Oceana’s estimate for 2021. This amount of plastic, in the form of air pillows, would circle the Earth more than 200 … Read more
Oceana launched a new “Whales in Crisis” public service announcement (PSA) campaign today featuring actress Cobie Smulders that calls on decision-makers to do more to save whales from deadly entanglements in fishing gear off the West Coast of the United States. “Once caught, these whales struggle to eat and even reach the surface to breathe,” … Read more
The ocean is vast and largely unexplored, leading people to think of it as a mysterious place where action only occurs at the surface. However, the reality is that there’s another dimension that is crucial for the flora and fauna that brings the ocean to life: depth. Most fish, plants, mammals, and other marine organisms … Read more
This week, at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) 13th ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi, ministers were unable to finalize an addendum to its Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies that had the potential to curb harmful fisheries subsidies that lead to overfishing. This setback extends the WTO’s two-decade-long streak of failing to prohibit harmful subsidies, a commitment … Read more
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