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Come join us at COP25 on Tuesday, 3 December, 11:15 at the Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion to discuss the importance of oceans and how countries are linking sustainable oceans to the climate agenda.
Sea cucumber in National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa. (Photo: Greg McFall/NOAA)
Small-island developing nations or SIDS, including those in the Pacific region, fundamentally depend on the ocean for livelihood, culture, economy and lifestyle. Many SIDS are also heavily dependent on international aid to supplement their own domestic budgets. Understanding how international finance is supporting the sustainable oceans agenda is therefore highly relevant to the region’s sustainable development agenda.
In this session, we discuss the importance of oceans and how countries are linking sustainable oceans to the climate agenda. We hear about various experiences in the Pacific region with implementing measures to protect oceans. We use our new Aid Atlas online platform to look at what is known (and not known) about how international aid is supporting sustainable oceans.
We also look at ways we might better track whether finance is being mobilized for the sustainable oceans agenda – because ultimately, we need ways of ensuring financial support is being targeted at high priority programmes and actions across the Pacific regions, and globally.
Confirmed participants:
Further participants: tbd
Moderator: Robert Bradley, NDC Partnership
Place: Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion, Hall 8, IFEMA
Tool / Aid Atlas helps users to more easily understand how development funding is being provided, where it is going, and what it’s being used for.
Initiative / Our work on global finance looks at how the global financial system supports or undermines societal transitions.
Tool / Aid Atlas helps users to more easily understand how development funding is being provided, where it is going, and what it’s being used for.
SEI brief / Learn about Aid Atlas – an interactive online platform for exploring the flows of international development finance.
Feature / Despite donors committing increasing amounts of money to develop renewable energy in small island developing states, not all of it is being disbursed. Why?
