On the precipice: crime and corruption in Ghana's Chinese-owned trawler fleet: Fisheries that millions of Ghanaians depend on are at risk of collapse as a result of rampant illegal fishing and overfishing by Chinese-owned industrial trawlers, and a culture of corruption has allowed these crimes to go unpunished. This report explains the urgent action needed to reverse this decline.
Fisheries that millions of Ghanaians depend on are at risk of collapse as a result of rampant illegal fishing and overfishing by Chinese-owned industrial trawlers, and a culture of corruption has allowed these crimes to go unpunished. This report explains the urgent action needed to reverse this decline.
A threat to people and planet: The need for the Transform Bottom Trawling coalition: Bottom trawling poses a threat to our climate, marine ecosystems, and the coastal communities that depend on them. EJF has joined forces with the global coalition, Transform Bottom Trawling, to take action on this destructive practice.
Bottom trawling poses a threat to our climate, marine ecosystems, and the coastal communities that depend on them. EJF has joined forces with the global coalition, Transform Bottom Trawling, to take action on this destructive practice.
Legal analysis on the margin of tolerance in the European Union fisheries regime: A legal analysis by Tullio Scovazzi of the legality of the proposed changes by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (EU) to the margin of tolerance.
A case study of the margin of tolerance in the Baltic Sea: Effective fisheries management cannot be achieved without robust catch data. Science indicates misreporting of herring and sprat in the Baltic Sea catches persists, threatening sustainable management of these fisheries.
EJF’s Climate Policy Briefing for the Taiwanese Government: If Taiwan can demonstrate how good climate governance should be carried out, it would establish a leading position in the global community of nations that are taking action on climate change.
The EU forced labour products ban: how to ensure effective enforcement: Current EU rules do not serve to protect the victims of forced labour or to stop the products it generates from reaching the EU market. This briefing draws lessons from the creation and implementation of the EU regulation to prevent, deter and eliminate IUU fishing (EU IUU Regulation) to make recommendations on the design of an EU instrument enabling a forced labour products ban.
Current EU rules do not serve to protect the victims of forced labour or to stop the products it generates from reaching the EU market. This briefing draws lessons from the creation and implementation of the EU regulation to prevent, deter and eliminate IUU fishing (EU IUU Regulation) to make recommendations on the design of an EU instrument enabling a forced labour products ban.
Terms of reference: Climate film on Germany’s coal dependence: „Why the World Needs Germany to Exit Coal now“: a film on Germany’s coal dependence — with a focus on what the consequences are for the world of Germany’s coal ‘hunger’
