Ocean Dialogues 2021 - Ocean-Based Climate Solutions: Tapping the Ocean’s Potential for COP26 Success - English

Nations will convene in Glasgow this November for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP), a critical juncture in the world’s fight against climate change. Parties will review progress made since the Paris Agreement and are expected to bring to the table new and updated nationally determined contributions (NDC) that are designed to ratchet climate ambition higher. Since the last conference in Paris, awareness of the ocean’s potential and importance as a tool for climate mitigation and adaption has grown immensely. This Virtual Ocean Dialogue will seek to address the following questions: how can the potential of marine nature-based climate solutions be unleashed? How can countries best work to incorporate these into their nationally determined contributions (NDCs)? And what role can the private sector and civil society play in supporting the achievement of these NDCs?