This report is the culmination of the Environmental Defence Society’s multi-year oceans policy work. Numerous reports and papers reach the same conclusions: Our oceans management system is not up to the job of managing the oceans well and we need to urgently fix it.

In this final report, EDS proposes developing a statutory National Oceans Strategy, Marine Spatial Planning Framework and Marine Protected Areas Act. They also propose an Oceans Commission to act as a champion and voice for the ocean.

The launch will include a presentation by the report author Raewyn Peart, Policy Director at EDS, followed by Q+A. Andrew Grant, Chief Executive of the NEXT Foundation, will provide an overview of the foundation’s oceans work.

Register here by 12 September.