Blue Justice Ocean Surveillance Programme launched in partnership with Norwegian Government and UNDP
The Blue Justice Ocean Surveillance Programme is set to provide an important contribution to the global efforts to address fisheries crime, leveraging Norway’s state-of-the-art satellite technology. The Programme, part of the Norwegian Blue Justice Initiative, has the potential to strengthen the ability of over one-third of the world’s coastal states to increase their maritime domain awareness and detect fisheries crime.
Blue Action Jamaica 2023
In June 2023, as a part of the Blue Action Jamaica initiative, a three-day Tabletop Exercise (TTX) took place in Kingston, Jamaica, 30 May – 2 June 2023.
Blue Justice Conference 2023
In March 2023, the world’s largest conference on fisheries crime, the Blue Justice Conference, was held at UN City, Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference, co-hosted by UNDP, the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries and the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), brought together over 140 ministers, governmental representatives, operational experts, and civil society attendees from…
Blue Justice official side-event for UN Ocean Conference 2022
As part of the UN Ocean conference 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal, the Blue Justice Initiative, along with CRFM, CARICOM, UNDP, Jamaica, Belize, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Norway, hosted a high-level side event on International and Caribbean efforts to address organized crime in the fishing industry, on the 29th of June 2022. The event…
UNDP and Blue Justice Initiative Fisheries Crime event: Lehmkuhl visit to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Norwegian tall ship, Statsraad Lehmkuhl, called at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23-26 February, as part of its One Ocean Expedition, sailing under the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. UNDP is an official supporter of the OOE towards enhancing visibility, awareness-raising and global promotion of a sustainable blue economy free from fisheries crime. The…
The Blue Justice Initiative and UNDP Blue Resilience join as supporters of the One Ocean Expedition, part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
The Blue Justice Initiative and UNDP Blue Resilience have joined as supporters of the One Ocean Expedition, part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The first Blue Justice Initiative/UNDP Blue Resilience fisheries crime event on board the expedition’s training vessel Statsraad Lehmkuhl is set to take place in Kingston, Jamaica, on the 15th of…