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The brief identifies success stories in reducing coral reefs' vulnerability to local stressors and climate change, with examples from Belize, Bali, American Samoa, and Hawai’i, US. A new fund was launched in September 2020 to invest USD 500 million over ten years to conserve coral reefs.

Ocean ecosystems are under threat. They also hold solutions. Climate change is increasing sea levels and making the ocean warmer, more acidic and depleted in oxygen.

A new initiative designed to lessen humanity’s negative impacts on the world’s oceans has been signed by 14 countries.

Japan’s National Ocean Day is a timely reminder of the challenges many countries around the world face in supporting and reviving their ocean economies in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic...Here we explore what opportunities are offered by the economic pause to ignite a sustainable blue recovery

Government plans to stimulate economic recovery from the covid-19 pandemic should support growth and employment in the sustainable ocean economy...Investments in sustainable aquaculture, offshore renewables and ecosystem restoration should form a key part of the post-coronavirus economic recovery