Organization

Supporting Message

UNEP FI

This new report is an important piece of the UN’s combined efforts to catalyze the private sector towards a sustainable blue economy for a productive and healthy ocean. It highlights clear recommendations on how to harness a sustainable blue economy through ocean investments, knowledge generation, and blue infrastructure. UNEP FI encourages all financial actors to mobilize capital to solve social and environmental challenges, create sustainable ocean opportunities, and signal responsible ocean stewardship in line with the SDGs and the Paris Agreement.

IOC-UNESCO

"In the lead up to COP-26 “The Ocean-Climate Nexus a Blueprint for a Climate Smart Ocean to Meet 1.5°C” clearly sets out the challenge humanity is facing as we grapple to simultaneously preserve and sustainably manage the ocean while combatting climate change. As the coordinating agency of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO urges all stakeholders to invest in the generation of critical ocean knowledge that will help us meet this challenge."

UNFCCC High Level Climate Champion, Ocean Lead

"In the lead up to COP-26 “This new blueprint puts forward vital key steps for ocean actions. It is an important contribution to accelerate ocean based climate solutions at COP26 and beyond. “

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

This new brief provides a blueprint of ocean-based solutions to climate change with co-benefits for food security, nutrition, livelihoods and biodiversity. Fisheries and aquaculture, and their dependent communities, are at the forefront of climate change impacts, calling for concerted efforts in adaptation and mitigation. FAO implements a range of activities to support Members and partners to effectively adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change on aquatic food systems.