SPDA joins 80 international organizations in endorsing recommendations to turn the tide for the ocean
The ocean, the planet’s life support system, is increasingly threatened due to climate change, pollution, and overfishing. Preserving its health is fundamental, as it not only regulates the global climate and produces much of the oxygen we breathe, but it is also source of food and livelihoods for billions of people worldwide.
In this context and within the framework of COP30, which is taking place in Belém, Brazil, the Ocean & Climate Platform is presenting “A Collective Voice to Turn the Tide for the Ocean, Climate and Biodiversity,” a publication that promotes a paradigm shift: from a reactive crisis response to proactive, long-term resilience, and from fragmented approaches to coordinated and systemic action.
This proposal urges that decisions be firmly based on scientific evidence and traditional knowledge, and that solutions be implemented with the utmost urgency to secure lasting benefits for people and the planet. This publication is the result of a collective effort that has brought together the knowledge and experience of the scientific community and civil society.
The recommendations are structured around three strategic pillars: Understand (ensure that science and local knowledge underpin decisions), Implement (deploy ocean-based solutions widely with benefits for nature and people), and Transform (profoundly reconfigure socioeconomic, financial, and political systems). These form a concrete roadmap to achieve a healthy and resilient ocean by 2030, the horizon of the 2030 Agenda.
The document concludes with a set of ten key proposals that act as a collective agenda to guide policymakers in defining governance priorities. These actionable measures seek to accelerate ocean-based solutions and align efforts across different sectors and scales. They include specific actions such as accelerating the energy transition, protecting marine and coastal ecosystems to increase their resilience, and strengthening governance and international cooperation among actors.
This important publication has been endorsed by 87 organizations worldwide that are members of the Ocean & Climate Platform network, including the Peruvian Society for
Environmental Law (SPDA), the only Peruvian organization. These recommendations are addressed to decision-makers and authorities, urging them to adopt and effectively implement these proposals to achieve global climate, biodiversity, and sustainability objectives.
With its presentation at COP30 in Brazil, the promotion and dissemination of this document begins, representing a crucial opportunity to consolidate the ocean’s role in global climate governance. This document is currently available in English and French.
About the Ocean & Climate Platform
The Ocean & Climate Platform is an international coalition of over 100 organizations connecting science, civil society, and policymakers to better integrate the ocean into climate and biodiversity policies.
This platform was created in 2014, within the framework of COP21, with the conviction that the ocean, vital for the planet’s climate regulation, could not remain absent from international negotiations. More than ten years later, despite the inclusion of the ocean moving from the margins to the center of climate and biodiversity agendas, progress is insufficient. The pressures on the ocean continue to intensify. Given this panorama, the imperative to move from promises to transformative action has never been so evident.
