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December 2019

Assessing Progress on Ocean and Climate Action: 2019

Authors
Biliana Cicin-Sain, Miriam Balgos, Alexis Maxwell, Vanessa C.S. Knecht, Brian Cortes, Joanna Post, Bénédicte Caremier, Alessandra Lamotte, Kushaal Raj, Valentina Germani, Atsushi Sunami, Miko Maekawa, Nagisa Yoshioka, Loreley Picourt, Amrikha Singh, Sylvie Goyet, Raphael Bille, Carol Turley, Salvatore Arico, Kirsten Isensee, Julie Prigent, Alejandro Rojas Aldana, Hans-Otto Poertner, Lisa Levin, Natalya Gallo, Tarûb Bahri, Manuel Barange, Florence Poulain, John-O Niles, Jessie Turner, Rémi Parmentier, Dorothée Herr, Lisa Schindler Murray, Emily Pidgeon, Jennifer Howard, Jean Brodeur, Frederik Haag, Edmund Hughes, Camille Bourgeon, Peter Ricketts, Emilia Ganslandt, Dina Ionesco, Mariam Traore Chazalnoel, Janot Mendler de Suarez, John Virdin, Tibor Vegh, Torsten Thiele
Type
Report
Assessing Progress on Ocean and Climate Action Report Cover
Publisher
ROCA Initiative
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The Progress Report on Ocean and Climate Action for 2019 addresses progress (or lack thereof) in the following categories: 1. Purpose of the Progress Report and progress achieved at COP24, within the UNFCC framework and in related international fora; 2. The central role of oceans in climate and associated science and policy issues, covering new scientific findings and their policy implications; 3. The central role of Nationally Determined Contributions; 4. Mitigation (including Blue Carbon, curbing air emissions from ships, renewable energy, and carbon capture and storage); 5. Adaptation; 6. Low Carbon Blue Economy; 7. Population Displacement; 8. Financing on Oceans and Climate; and 9. Capacity Development.