Foreword to the Special Issue on Protecting the Ocean: the London Convention and Stockholm Declaration at Fifty

Abstract The foreword to this special issue of 19 short articles, a result of the International Maritime Organization-World Maritime University International Academic Conference, held in Malmö, Sweden, from 10–13 October 2022 to mark the fiftieth anniversaries of the 1972 Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Convention) and the 1972 Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Declaration).