Graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Over 30 years' experience in nature conservation. Formerly: Environmental Lawyer, working on environmental protection cases in US; advised UN Environment Programme, co-authored text on environmental law. 1989-2001, with WWF-US, as head of the worldwide conservation programmes and ultimately Executive Vice-President. 2001-05, Director, Conservation and Science programme, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, one of the largest conservation funders in the US. 2005-14, Director-General, WWF International, serving as Chief Executive Officer, WWF International and leader of the global WWF Network. Since 2014, Consulting Professor and now Senior Fellow, Stanford University; Co-Director, Stanford's Center for Ocean Solutions. Member of the Friends of Ocean Action.
The world is currently lagging on its commitments to combat Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Global efforts failed to meet Sustainable Development Goal target 14.4 to en...
Illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing accounts for one in every five fish caught around the world and costs the global economy between $26 billion and $50 billion annually. Fi...
The world will increasingly rely on aquaculture to meet a growing demand for blue food, which is likely to double by 2050. Like all food systems, aquaculture presents both opportunities a...
Around the world, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is putting fish stocks, human rights and marine ecosystems in peril. Largely out of sight, IUU fishers steal millions o...
Fish are food. We know that. And yet, in discussions about the future of food, that simple fact tends to be forgotten. When world leaders gather for the UN Food System Summit next year, f...
The ocean is a lawless frontier. Nation states hold jurisdiction over waters within 200 miles of their coasts, but for many countries, effective control of those waters is a practical imp...
この記事は世界経済フォーラムの年次総会の一部です。
Largely out of sight, criminals pillage the oceans. They steal millions of tonnes of fish each year. That is a huge economic loss, estimated to be somewhere in the tens of billions of dol...
The ocean represents 99% of the living space on Earth. It provides livelihoods and nourishment for more than 3 billion people, and brings $3 trillion into the global economy each year. Ye...
Which emerging technologies could help us in our efforts to preserve the environment? How can they maximize the efficiency of our use of natural resources? What are the risks that these n...
We are entering an era of profound upheaval in the oceans – driven by climate change, and compounded by many other stresses, including acidification, pollution, overfishing and destructio...
