What are Friends of Ocean Action working on?

Friends of Ocean Action is a group of 54 leaders from various sectors working to address critical ocean challenges. Their initiatives include reducing plastic pollution through the Global Plastic Action Partnership, combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, and promoting the protection of 30% of the ocean by 2030. The group also focuses on decarbonizing the shipping industry via the Getting to Zero coalition, eliminating harmful fisheries subsidies, and improving gender parity within the ocean workforce. Additionally, they are developing an open-source ocean data platform, a handbook for sustainable blue economy finance, and analyzing the impacts of deep-sea mining.

• Friends of Ocean Action aims to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030, building on the immediate goal of protecting 10% of marine ecosystems by 2020.
• The Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP) is working with the governments of Viet Nam, Ghana, and Indonesia to create national action plans to reduce plastic pollution by 2025.
• To combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, which costs Pacific communities approximately USD 21 billion annually, the group is focusing on supply chain traceability, port access controls via the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), and new data capabilities.
• The group is supporting the Getting to Zero coalition to decarbonize the maritime sector, which accounts for roughly 2.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with a goal of reducing CO2 emissions by at least 50% by 2050.
• Friends of Ocean Action is advocating for the elimination of harmful fisheries subsidies, estimated at USD 22 billion worldwide per year, targeting a deal at the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference by June 2020.
• The group is addressing gender inequality in small-scale fisheries, where women hold 56 million jobs in developing countries but often lack labor rights and face barriers to financial and technological resources.
• The World Economic Forum is developing analysis on the drivers of mineral demand and the potential environmental risks of deep-sea mining, as the rare earth elements market is forecast to reach USD 14.43 billion by 2025.

APA

World Economic Forum (n.d.). What are Friends of Ocean Action working on? http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_FOA_2pp_OVERALL_JAN2020.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. What are Friends of Ocean Action working on? n.d. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_FOA_2pp_OVERALL_JAN2020.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforumndwhat, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{What are Friends of Ocean Action working on?}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, url = {http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_FOA_2pp_OVERALL_JAN2020.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }