National OA Action Planning Leadership Circle
Increasingly, OA must become a cross-cutting issue embedded across climate, ocean and marine science priorities, policies, and actions. Advancing National OA action will inform better decision making for achieving national mitigation, adaptation, and resilience goals.
Selected governments have been invited to join the National OA Action Planning Leadership Circle and commit to national OA Actions by the 3rd UN Ocean Conference in June 2025.
The leadership programme supports invited Ministries, departments and policy officers in
in finding their unique approach to domestic OA Actions across 2024-2025, leading to national implementation of UN SDG 14.3 “to minimize and address OA” by the 3rd UN Ocean Conference in 2025.
Participating governments receive specific guidance on:
Accounting for OA Across Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans under the Paris Climate Agreement.
Integrating OA Knowledge and response Across Sustainable Ocean Planning.
Incorporating OA Across the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive.
Check out the project and resources:
Invitation Letter
Members of the High-Level Panel on Ocean Sustainability will learn how to integrate OA activities or priority knowledge gaps across related outcomes of Sustainable Ocean Plans having to do with ocean wealth, health, equity, knowledge, and finance.
Parties of the Paris Climate Agreement will learn how to include OA mitigation, adaptation, technology capacity and financing needs across Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs).
Member States of the European Union will learn how to integrate OA across relevant descriptors of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive.
OA Alliance team lead:
Annika Frosch
OA Action Plan Lead & International Policy Consultant
Email: afrosch@unfoundation.org