10 Sep 2024
OSPAR’s Quality Status Report 2023 showed that marine birds continue to be in trouble due to the effects of climate change and other pressures resulting from human activities such as mortality, habitat loss and degradation. In direct response to this assessment countries from around the North-East Atlantic together with the European Union have adopted an […]
04 Jul 2023
Countries from around the North-East Atlantic met in Oslo, Norway for the 2023 meeting of the OSPAR Commission for the Protection and Conservation of the North-East Atlantic. OSPAR Contracting Parties agreed to extend its largest Marine Protected Area (MPA) to include the seabed and a number of additional species and habitats, such as coral gardens […]
06 Dec 2022
OSPAR is considering extending a Marine Protected Area the size of France to cover the seabed and other species and habitats. The OSPAR Commission for the protection of the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) is seeking stakeholder views on proposed expansion to the North Atlantic Current and Evlanov Sea basin Marine Protected Area […]
27 Sep 2022
Impacts of offshore oil and gas industry on the marine environment shown to have decreased in the North-East Atlantic, according to an assessment by the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (the ‘OSPAR Convention’). OSPAR has published its latest assessment of impacts of the offshore oil and gas industry on […]
09 Aug 2022
EU countries are committed to achieving Good Environmental Status (GES) in their marine waters under the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive. The UK is following a parallel process with the same commitment under the UK Marine Strategy, which also has the objective of Good Environmental Status. OSPAR is coordinating this work at the regional scale, and […]
21 Oct 2019
OSPAR held a special consultative meeting in accordance with OSPAR Decision 98/3 on the Disposal of Disused Offshore Installations today in London. On Friday 18 October 2019 a meeting was held in London in accordance with OSPAR Decision 98/3 on the Disposal of Disused Offshore Installations. The Decision prohibits the dumping, and leaving wholly or partly […]
24 Feb 2019
Greenpeace ‘The British government has endorsed plans by oil giant Shell to leave some decommissioned North Sea oil infrastructure in place, despite the German government expressing serious concerns about shortcomings in the oil giant’s proposals, according to leaked documents seen by Unearthed. Hundreds of ageing North Sea oil and gas rigs will be decommissioned in the […]
