Climate Deep Dive

This brief reviews the potential climate benefits of marine protected areas (MPAs).

This brief reviews the climate-related implications of deep-sea mining, including associated environmental risks.

Learn about ocean CDR, a collection of techniques that leverage the ocean’s biological, physical and geochemical processes to take up extra atmospheric CO2.

World leaders seeking to confront the climate crisis should understand that the ocean is being damaged by climate change – but it can also play a considerable part in delivering the solutions we need.

Transitioning the shipping industry away from fossil fuels

This Action Plan derives principles for the investment community to support a blue-green shipping sector in the region.

This brief outlines how ocean solutions can support key domestic and international elements of the Biden-Harris decarbonization plan.

This report lays out exactly how the U.S. government can eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from the shipping industry in order to help slow climate change.

This report aims to give the reader a detailed review of the existing literature on LNG as a marine fuel.

This report shows that the US is particularly well positioned to be at the vanguard to aligning its fleet and energy system to scalable zero emission fuels (SZEF) this decade.

Read our report to learn more about green shipping corridors.

This report takes a data-centric approach, combined with a rich understanding of the transition pathway this sector is currently on.

A report commissioned by Ocean Conservancy explores the potential opportunity for five major ports on the west coast of North America.

A new report finds that many ports in Central and South America are primed to develop “electrofuels.”

Following the Funding of Emission Reduction Projects in United States Ports

This Ocean-Climate Guide to Action provides options for countries to include meaningful ocean-based mitigation and adaptation actions in their plans to meet their Paris goals.

This document presents a set of near-term steps that governments and stakeholders could announce—as well as a set of medium-term and midcentury goals that they could adopt—to create a thriving climate and ocean.

The Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act is the first comprehensive U.S. bill on ocean-climate action.

On the Pacific Coast of North America, state and provincial governments are experiencing firsthand the local impacts of climate change, and have been implementing a series of policies to help address them.

Here we discuss four ocean-climate linkages that suggest specific responses by Parties to the Paris Agreement.

This policy brief tracks the inclusion of concrete, ocean-based climate actions in national climate goals under the Paris Agreement.

Explore state stories that highlight a variety of actions by states that have prioritized ocean-climate solutions.

Stories of states that have taken ambitious actions to strengthen and build their adaptative capacity and resilience to the changes that are already being experienced and to prepare for changes to come.

State stories that exemplify various funding sources and mechanisms used by states to successfully drive ocean and coastal mitigation and adaptation actions.

State stories that showcase leading examples of successful coordination and partnerships that are crucial to implementing effective ocean-climate action.

Stories from states that have already taken ambitious action to help mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

This series highlights some of the key actions California has taken to promote ocean-based mitigation and adaptation solutions.

To support the Paris Agreement, California shared its “ocean-climate contribution” at COP24.

On April 20, 2021, leaders from around the world joined a discussion, How Ocean-Based Solutions Contribute to Net Zero.

Ocean Conservancy urges inclusion of bold financial investments and changes in federal policy to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, contribute to technological advances in clean energy, and provide resources to help communities and ecosystems adapt and thrive.

This brief identifies ocean-based solutions the Biden-Harris Administration can take in its first 100 days to build physical, economic, social and ecological resilience to climate change.

As more carbon pollution is absorbed by the ocean, our ocean is becoming more acidic.

This brief presents several opportunities to create a “blue-green” foreign policy.

The ocean has a critical role to play: it is a significant economic driver that can contribute climate change mitigation and adaptation solutions that benefit frontline communities.

Read the Executive Summary of our Action Agenda for a Blue-Green Future.

Learn more about U.S. federal ocean-climate recommendations for 2021.

How investor and company climate commitments ignore plastics and what to do about it.

Using the case study of plastic resin producers, we demonstrate in this paper that Scope 3 emissions disclosures are essential to investors

Ocean Conservancy and Perkins Coie partnered to outline actionable recommendations that if implemented would significantly increase the effectiveness, efficiency and regulatory certainty of U.S. offshore wind.

This paper aims to inform discussion across the ocean and climate community on approaches to advance the implementation of the Glasgow Climate Pact on the integration and strengthening of ocean action within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and how the community, including the Friends of the Ocean and Climate and NGOs, may wish to engage collectively towards this endeavor.