Diving into the oceans financing knowledge gap

Join SEI at the Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion to discuss the importance of oceans and how countries are linking sustainable oceans to the climate agenda. 

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.

This session will discuss the importance of oceans and how countries are linking sustainable oceans to the climate agenda. It will highlight various experiences in the Pacific region with implementing measures to protect oceans. It will use  new Aid Atlas online platform to look at what is known (and not known) about how international aid is supporting sustainable oceans.

It will also look at ways society might better track whether finance is being mobilized for the sustainable oceans agenda – because ultimately, it must be ensured that financial support is being targeted at high priority programmes and actions across the Pacific regions, and globally.

Confirmed participants:

Ms Tagaloa Cooper-Halo, Director, Climate Change Resilience, SPREP

Jens Sedemund, Head, Environment and Climate Change, Development Cooperation Directorate, OECD

Jan Wärnbäck, Swedish International Development Agency (Sida)

Aaron Atteridge, Senior Research Fellow, SEI

Further participants: tbd

Moderator: Robert Bradley, NDC Partnership

Contact

For any question, kindly reach out to Aaron Atteridge