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Global Ocean Accounts Partnership
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Measuring and managing progress towards ocean-based sustainable development & climate action 🔗 www.oceanaccounts.org
🗓️ www.oceanaccounts.org/tag/events/
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🗺️ Upcoming webinar! Mapping #ecosystems for #MarineSpatialPlanning

Machine learning + earth obs data can be used to efficiently map large ecosystems. @OceanAccounts geospatial expert will introduce how ecosystem mapping can support #OceanAccounts.

🔗 www.oceanaccounts.org/webinar-ocea...
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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📢 JOIN US! GOAP Webinar integrating #SocialData ➡️ #OceanAccounts

🛠️ @oceanaccounts.bsky.social & @worldresources.bsky.social launch new social data tool
🌐Hear from those implementing #SocialAccounts across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and Asia

▶️ www.oceanaccounts.org/webinar-inte...
October 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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📊Data-driven approaches to #DisasterRiskResilience for #DRRday

#OceanAccounts data ➡️ to build coastal resilience:
🗺️ Identify high-risk coastal areas
🌴 Understand eco-based protection
💰 Inform economic impact assessments
🧱 Support post-disaster recovery

▶️ www.oceanaccounts.org/ocean-accoun...
October 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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1/2 Updates from #PIOC2025 🏝️

GOAP Sec led sessions on:
📊From data ➡️ decisions: Fiji & Vanuatu shared experiences in #OceanAccounts linked to national policy
🧱 Workshop: integrated ocean accounts for #BluePacific

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October 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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1/3 🌊The #ocean's crucial role in sustainable development takes centre stage this week around the world, from Mombasa ➡️ Kenya.

Here are this week's #events in #SustainableDevelopment!
September 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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61 countries have now ratified the #BBNJ Agreement (aka #HighSeasTreaty) crossing the threshold required to bring it into force.

🌊A major step for protection of our shared ocean
📝It will be legally binding on the 17 January 2026
treaties.un.org/PAGES/ViewDe...
September 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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1/2 🌟🌍 Special session: #OceanAccounts at the @wiomsa.bsky.social 13th Scientific Symposium

Hosted by #PwaniUniversity @unesco-iocafrica.bsky.social supported by @oceanaccounts.bsky.social #UKDefra

🔗 www.oceanaccounts.org/wiomsa-2025-...
September 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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👀 #ConsultancyOpportunity for a #SocialScience team interested in integrating the social domain for #OceanAccounts in Belize 🇧🇿

Led by Belize Ministry of Blue Economy and Marine Conservation & @oceanaccounts.bsky.social

🤔 Find out more: www.oceanaccounts.org/consultancy-...
September 16, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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1/4 🌍 Exciting developments from this week's Africa Community of Practice (CoP) meeting where 72 collaborators met to discuss regional progress & upcoming events.

Africa (CoP) = GOAP’s principle mechanism to advance pan-African collaboration and cooperation on #OceanAccounting.
September 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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3/3 Practitioner's Guide developed by @unepwcmc.bsky.social @oceanaccounts.bsky.social introduces how #OceanAccounts can be used for #MarineRestoration projects

▶️ Read the guide: www.oceanaccounts.org/ocean-accoun...
August 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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2/3 #OceanAccounts transform existing data ➡️ formats that enable
💰 Better communication with funders, improving investment attraction
⚖️ Policy alignment with national & international goals for #biodiversity & #climate
🤝 Clear communication of benefits to economy & society

@unepwcmc.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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1/3🪸 Lost in translation - how can we better communicate the benefits of marine restoration projects to policymakers and funders?

This communication breakdown is costing the ocean 🌊

But there is a solution... (Hint: #OceanAccounts)

@unepwcmc.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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🌊 WEBINAR: how can #OceanAccounts support the #BlueEconomy in the Indian Ocean Region?

Hosted by Sri Lanka's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, @oceanaccounts.bsky.social and #IORA

🔗 Register: www.oceanaccounts.org/webinar-ocea...
August 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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UN treaty negotiations to end #PlasticPollution - #INC52 kicked off in Geneva

💡For a transparent, equitable & ambitious treaty - there must be an obligation for national data on the full life cycle of plastics

We can’t manage what we can’t measure
Read more: www.oceanaccounts.org/policy-brief...
UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen emphasised the urgency of reaching agreement on comprehensive measures to address plastic pollution. Around 3,700 delegates from 184 countries & 600+ organisations for the final round of negotiations to lock in a treaty on plastic pollution INC Chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso opened the session with calls for unity and completion of the mandate given under UNEA Resolution 5/14
August 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Global #PlasticsTreaty negotiations #INC52 start soon in Geneva - what is needed to ensure the success of the agreement?

Remarks from Dr. Sivendra Michael, Fiji during webinar on the importance of #data and #science.

Read our policy brief data on plastics: www.oceanaccounts.org/policy-brief...
August 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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A good last day at #UNOC3
Australia🖊️signed the Pledge to Advance #OceanAccounts by 2030

👏 19 nations & 7 orgs have now signed, marking a shift from ambition➡️action: to measure, value & manage the ocean🌊 See the full list
🔗https://www.oceanaccounts.org/the-pledge-to-advance-ocean-accounts-by-2030/
Australian rep from Dept climate change, energy, enviro and water signs the pledge at UNOC
June 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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🏝️ Moving speech at #UNOC3 when Hon. Alitia Bainivalu, Min. for Fisheries & Forests, Fiji spoke "not just as a Minister... but as a daughter of the sea." during the #PledgeforOceanAccounts event.

▶️ www.oceanaccounts.org/ocean-accoun...

🇫🇯amongst 1st countries to sign Pledge in March 2025.
June 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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1/2 🌊📊 #MarineMetrics to measure impact - #UNOC3 event tomorrow

💡 #GOAP Secretariat Director to discuss how #OceanAccounts can inform investment decisions and improve data-driven decision-making in ocean finance.

Organised by @npinitiative.bsky.social #WEF @orraanews.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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2/2 💪By signing #PledgeforOceanAccounts countries are signalling shift from ambition ➡️ action, where measuring, valuing and managing the ocean through integrated data becomes the global standard.

@oceanaccounts.bsky.social ready to support countries in this commitment #OceanAccounts
June 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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1/2 🔴 LIVE from #UNOC3 - led by Co-Chair 🇨🇷 the #PledgeforOceanAccounts is a voluntary commitment to advance the integration of ocean accounts into decision-making frameworks by 2030.

🔗 View full list of signatories: www.oceanaccounts.org/the-pledge-t...

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June 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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🔴 LIVE from Blue Zone at #UNOC3 - "Delivering on the 2030 Sustainable Ocean Economy: Pledge to Develop Ocean Accounts by 2030"

Organised by @oceanaccounts.bsky.social Costa Rica, Indonesia, Maldives @norwaymfa.government.no @oecd-ocde.bsky.social and The World Bank

bit.ly/OA-UNOC
June 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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🌊TODAY at #UNOC3 - how can #OceanAccounts deliver on the 2030 Sustainable Ocean Economy? And the #PledgeforOceanAccounts

Hear from global leaders in #OceanAccounting

▶️Learn more: bit.ly/OA-UNOC
June 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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2/2 The Global Ocean Accounts Partnership (#GOAP) is a coalition of countries and organisations working together since 2019 to move #BeyondGDP to measure and manage sustainable ocean development. #OceanAccounts #UNOC3

👀 Learn more: www.oceanaccounts.org/p/54c45a7c-4...
June 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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1/2 🚀LAUNCHED on #WorldOceansDay: GOAP Progress Report celebrates 6yrs of GOAP supporting countries in transition to #SustainableOceanEconomy! 🌊

#OceanAccounts make visible connections betw human wellbeing, ecosystem health & economic sustainability.

🔗 www.oceanaccounts.org/goap-progres...
#UNOC3
June 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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1/2 ⏰ NEXT WEEK - #OceanAccountsDay at #UNOC3 📊

Join #OceanAccounts Day on 10 June to learn how evidence-based decision making will be central to the transition to a #SustainableOceanEconomy ⬇️⬇️⬇️

👀 View agenda: www.oceanaccounts.org/ocean-accoun...
June 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM