Wednesday 10 June 2026

Is MSC certifying sustainability or endorsing risk?

The recent decision by the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) assessment body to recertify Antarctica Krill as “sustainable” raises a fundamental question: Are certification standards keeping pace with environmental reality or legitimizing growing ecological risk?

This is not a technical dispute. It goes to the credibility of one of the world’s most recognized eco-labels and to how we govern one of the planet’s last great global commons.

Read the article authored by the chair of Antarctica2030, José María Figueres, and Ashlan Gorse Cousteau via Sea Food Source.

 

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