USAID Announcements at the 2022 Our Ocean Conference

Initiatives to Conserve and Protect Our Oceans

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced 24 new and ongoing initiatives to conserve and protect our oceans at the 2022 Our Ocean Conference in Palau.

These initiatives, targets, and partnerships support Agency priorities and the areas of action set out by the conference that identify solutions to manage marine resources, increase the ocean’s resilience to climate change, and safeguard its health for generations to come.

Areas of activity include:

• Advancing Marine Protected Areas for Communities, Ecosystems, and Climate
• Advancing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries and Aquaculture
• Creating Sustainable Blue Economies
• Confronting the Ocean–Climate Crisis, or: Towards an Ocean Solution for Climate Change
• Tackling Marine Pollution

Please visit the link to know more about the initiative.