COMMITMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
United nations SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 14
At the 2017 UN Ocean Conference to Implement Sustainable Development Goal 14, the OA Alliance registered Voluntary Commitment (#15195) to grow the coalition and support the creation of 15 OA Action Plans, which is has completed.
The Alliance is an active member within the Community of Action to Implement SDG 14.3.
In 2022, the OA Alliance committed to support the creation of 10 additional National OA Action Plans by UN Ocean Conference in 2025.
Additionally, the OA Alliance has committed to engaging subnational, Tribal, First Nation and regional governments. This will ensure a diversity of information generators and end-users can provide direct feedback about what kinds of “knowledge to action” channels are most useful for developing and implementing OA Action Plans domestically.
UN Ocean Conference 2022
The 2022 UN Ocean Conference, co-hosted by the Governments of Kenya and Portugal, took place June 27-July 1 in Lisbon, Portugal. The success of the Conference proved that while the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in the delay of many pivotal ocean and climate convenings and benchmarks —the global commitment to action and progress is not diminished.
The OA Alliance showed up in a big way, doing our part to drive climate action and increase understanding and implementation of UN SDG 14.3, "to minimize and address ocean acidification.” We did this by announcing new members, convening a meeting about climate financing for ocean adaptation, hosting an official SDG 14.3 side event at Altice Arena and unveiling voluntary commitments to OA action taking made by membership!
Climate Financing for Ocean Adaptation & Resilience
On June 27th 2022, the first day of the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, the OA Alliance and co-hosts convened a meeting titled, “Climate Financing for Ocean Adaptation and Resilience.”
The meeting brought together international and regional ocean acidification science and policy coordinating bodies, national government representatives, and major international climate finance regimes with charges to support countries in developing and implementing climate adaptation and resilience strategies that advance goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development 2030 Agenda.
Outcomes included a deepened understanding of the eligibility requirements of climate financing for ocean acidification adaptation and community resiliency strategies.
oa events at UNOC 2022:
oa events at UNOC 2022:
Interactive Dialogue 3: Minimizing and Addressing Ocean Acidification, Deoxygenation and Warming
The OA Alliance was welcomed as an invited panelist to the official Interactive Dialogue on SDG 14.3 which took place Wednesday, June 29. We took the opportunity to share members’ efforts to better understand and respond to ocean and coastal acidification.
Ms. Jessie Turner, Director of the OA Alliance brought home the importance of taking action now:
“When talking about climate change impacts on our ocean, we must be clear that while we don’t know everything, we know enough to act. We know enough to begin prioritizing and exploring the key questions that are most important to policy makers, seafood industries and coastal communities. And the good news is…we have lots of existing frameworks across different scales of governance that can be leveraged to take up this work.”
