Solving-FCB at the UN Ocean Conference
The Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at UBC is is excited to have a large team of faculty, researchers, and students attending the 2025 UN Ocean Conference. Representing the Solving-FCB Partnership, the team will host two high-impact side events on nature-based land-sea solutions, marine governance, and coastal resilience. Faculty, researchers, and youth will share insights, foster partnerships, and explore equitable, science-driven pathways toward sustainable ocean futures. Find out more below, or check out the dedicated UNOC3 page.
Solving-FCB Brochure
This brochure, produced by PhD student Aleah Wong, with assistance from our five Case Study teams, highlights Solving FCB’s work to address the interconnected challenges of food security, climate change, and biodiversity loss. We showcase policy-relevant research across five continents and five cross-cutting themes: 1) Healthy and sustainable seafood, 2) The co-existence of biodiversity, fisheries and aquaculture, 3) Ecosystem-based and climate-resilient management, and 4) Bridging knowledge, policy and action. Our research uses a transdisciplinary and inclusive approach that recognizes multiple ways of knowing and valuing the ocean to generate solutions that are evidence-based, culturally grounded, and policy-relevant.
Partnership Goals & Objectives
The goal of the 6-year Partnership, “Solving the Sustainability Challenges at the Food-Climate-Biodiversity Nexus” (Solving-FCB), is to support and facilitate the development of viable FCB solutions that explicitly consider their complex social and ecological contexts. The Solving-FCB Partnership brings together world-leading scholars and practitioners from academic institutes, inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations, and government agencies to undertake transdisciplinary research that examines policies and human actions at the intersection of achieving food security, climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation goals.
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Case Studies
The Partnership is grounded on five case studies that focus on FCB challenges under a range of societal and environmental contexts. Through case studies in Canada, China, Costa Rica, Ghana/Nigeria and the Netherlands, the Partnership aims to elucidate specific policy-related questions under different decision-making contexts. Although independent of each other, the case studies align in their common exploration of visions and pathways to achieve FCB goals.
Latest News
Gender dynamics, climate change threats and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing
New Solving-FCB paper explores how gender inequality shapes the impacts of climate change and IUU fishing on small-scale fisheries, highlighting the need for equity in ocean governance.
Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever
Extractive activities in international waters must end permanently to avoid irreversible damage to marine biodiversity, climate stability, and ocean equity, argue leading ocean scientists in Nature.
US Budget Cuts Threaten Global Ocean Science
Sweeping US federal science budget cuts are undermining global ocean observing systems and weakening the international foundations for sustainable fisheries and marine climate policy.
