Our vision is a world whose seas and ocean are abundant in marine life that is diverse, climate resilient, and not threatened by human pressures.

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Why the

Ocean matters

We live on planet ocean

Viewed from space, we clearly live on “Planet Ocean”. Seas and oceans cover 70% of the surface of our world.

The ocean shapes our weather

Ocean currents help move heat around the world, making the climate less extreme and our planet more habitable.

The ocean slows climate change

By absorbing a large part of our CO2 emissions and most of the excess heat generated by emissions, and by storing carbon from marine life, the ocean provides vital climate mitigation.

The ocean is home to a myriad of life

The world’s seas and oceans contain millions of different kinds of life, many of them unknown to science.

The ocean is the lungs of the world

Life in our seas and oceans produces half of the oxygen we breathe.

The ocean heals us

Our seas and oceans provide life-saving drugs, and ocean life could be the key to tackling the diseases of the future.

The ocean feeds us

More than 3.5 billion people depend on our seas and oceans for their primary source of food.

The ocean makes us whole

It is where we came from and where we always return, to rest, swim, dive, sail, and to nurture our physical and mental health.

Spotlight On

Red lines in the abyss: Growing financier concern over deep-sea mining

As demand for critical minerals grows, pressure is mounting to mine the deep sea - one of the planet’s most fragile and least understood ecosystems. New research by Seas At Risk and the Deep Sea Mining Campaign finds that 82 financial institutions representing €24 trillion in assets have already adopted policies restricting or raising concerns about deep-sea mining.

With nearly half of these policies adopted in the past year, the finance sector is increasingly recognising the environmental and financial risks of the industry - signalling that deep-sea mining is approaching the same exclusion threshold as sectors like fossil fuels and tobacco.

Read the report