Save the oceans
ABOUT OCEANA
Oceana, Inc. is a non-profit organization based in Washington D.C., US.
They were established in 2001 by a group of leading foundations - The Pew Charitable Trusts, Oak Foundation, Marisla Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
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Since its founding, Oceana has won over 200 victories and protected more than one million square miles of ocean.
CLIMATE AND ENERGY
Promoting clean, renewable energy
Perhaps the gravest threat to our oceans and our planet is a changing climate. Unprecedented levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are warming the planet and disrupting weather patterns, leading to flooding, melting ice, rising seas, droughts, and the devastation of ecosystems on land and at sea.
Oceana works globally to promote clean, renewable energy sources like offshore wind. In the U.S., they are working to extend the Investment Tax Credit, which is needed to fund offshore wind projects, and Oceana actively works in both Europe and South America to push for energy policies that include clean energy. At the same time, they work to ensure that offshore wind is installed safely and with an overall benefit to the world’s oceans.
SAVE THE OCEANS, FEED THE WORLD
Restoring the oceans could feed 1 billion people a healthy meal each day
There are 7 billion people on Earth, and this figure is expected to grow to a staggering 9 billion people by 2050. The planet must produce 70 percent more food to meet the coming hunger needs, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Right now, 795 million people on this planet suffer from hunger, and we don’t have enough arable land and fresh water to feed 2 billion more without incurring severe losses to the natural world.
But there is a solution. Studies show that by implementing better and proven management measures we can potentially increase the global fish catch by up to 15 percent from current levels. We can rebuild ocean biodiversity and abundance and be able to feed a billion people a healthy seafood meal each day.
PLASTICS
Ending single-use plastics
The oceans face a massive and growing threat from something you encounter everyday: plastics. An estimated 33 billion pounds of plastic leaks into the marine environment from land-based sources every year—this is roughly equivalent to dumping two garbage trucks full of plastic into the oceans every minute.
Oceana campaigns in eight countries and the European Union to achieve meaningful reductions in ocean plastic pollution by reducing the production and use of throwaway plastics.
BLUE MANIFESTO
A RESCUE PLAN THAT WORKS
The “Blue Manifesto” is a ten-year rescue plan that lays out concrete actions by set dates so that we can save our ocean and coastlines by 2030.
In January 2020, more than 102 organisations, led by five NGOs, launched the “Blue Manifesto”, a rescue plan that lays out concrete actions by set dates to save our ocean and coastlines. At least 30% of the ocean to be highly or fully protected by 2030.
In April 2020, Oceana, alongside other marine NGOs, wrote a letter to the European Commission to stress the importance of the rescue plan laid out within the Manifesto in the context of the COVID-19 economic crisis.