Description:
The Global Ocean Forum, first mobilized in 2001 to help governments place issues related to oceans, coasts, and small island developing States (SIDS) on the World Summit on Sustainable Development agenda, brings together ocean leaders from all sectors from 112 countries to advance the global ocean agenda. The Global Ocean Forum promotes the implementation of international agreements related to oceans, coasts, and SIDS by assessing progress made, and identifying obstacles and opportunities for achieving sustainable development. Through expert working groups and multi-stakeholder dialogues, the Global Ocean Forum, with support from the Global Environment Facility and other collaborating organizations, has been reporting on progress achieved on each of the WSSD ocean-related goals. For Rio+20, the Global Ocean Forum is mobilizing the Rio+20 Friends of the Ocean and carrying out assessments on the implementation of 1992 UNCED and 2002 WSSD targets on oceans and coasts to provide input towards the development of a vision and action program for the next phase, through a UNDP-GEF project on “GEF IW:LEARN: Portfolio Learning in International Waters with a Focus on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands and Regional Asia/Pacific and Coral Triangle Learning Processes.”
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Blue Economy
Rio+20 Friends of the Ocean