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Saving the ocean and climate through innovative marine protected area finance mechanisms

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Ocean threats: acidification, deoxygenation, warming, heatwaves. Do we have anything useful to bend, change, or reverse the results? This brochure, conceived to advocate and educate at the UNFCCC COP27 meetings, summarises these threats and how various solutions (explained within) can actually help protect the ocean as Nature-based Solutions, if correctly constructed, and the existing and emerging financial mechanisms and institutions that can build and fortify these solutions.

The Maldives, seen in part from above, is comprised of 1,192 islands. The tiny island nation also has the world’s highest levels of microplastics in its beach sand and offshore waters. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY

The Maldives designates marine protected areas

January 21, 2022

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The Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and his administration designated six naturally unique and eco-rich areas in Laamu Atoll as Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

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A Lobster (Homarus gammarus) and pout (Trisopterus luscus) examine the baited camera in the Lyme Bay Marine Protected Area. Credit: University of Plymouth

Marine Protected Area status can boost fish populations by almost 400%

September 10, 2021

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Protecting areas of the ocean and coastlines with "whole-site" Marine Protected Area (MPA) status can result in four-fold increases in the abundance and diversity of fish populations, a new study has shown.

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Saving the ocean and climate through innovative marine protected area finance mechanisms