2020
In partnership with the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG), DAWN’s Blue Economy project starts examining ocean-based development from a Southern feminist and deeply Pacific perspective, tracking regional and global trends, including corporate-state initiatives such as deep-sea mining (DSM), in the context of the escalating climate crisis, raising urgent questions about who benefits from this agenda. The project emphasises that for many in the Pacific, climate change is an existential crisis, not a distant threat. Drawing from regional feminist analyses, panels with experts and contributions to CEDAW shadow reports, since 2020 the project calls for climate justice rooted in sovereignty, intergenerational responsibility, and the protection of the ocean as a life-sustaining commons, not a resource to be mined.
