Dear ORRAA members and friends, BREAKING NEWS As I write this from the Our Ocean Conference in the beautiful Pacific Island country of Palau, it is a privilege to let you know that we have more support on the way! .
Read moreRepublic of Palau, 14 April 2022 – The United States has pledged to play a leading role to support the acceleration of investment into the Ocean and the resilience of coastal communities.
Read morePalau, 14 April 2022 – Salesforce and the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA) are joining forces - along with partners – to shape the development of a robust marketplace for blue carbon credits, it was announced today at the Our Ocean conference in Palau.
Read moreThe findings of today’s IPCC AR6 Report on Impact, Adaptation, and Vulnerability are unequivocal. Climate change is happening now with cascading and compounding effects.
Read moreBrest, 9 February 2022 – The development of a new global finance ecosystem designed to channel hundreds of millions of dollars into coastal and ocean natural capital by 2030 is underway, it was announced today at the One Ocean Summit hosted by France.
Read moreA major global competition is launching today to find innovative financial and insurance products designed to build resilience in coastal communities vulnerable to climate change.
Read moreThe Commonwealth Blue Charter, BNP Paribas, Palladium, Van Oord and the Insurance Development Forum all announced at COP 26 that they are joining the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance or ORRAA.
Read moreGlobal Fishing Watch, Trygg Mat Tracking, Oceana, Ocean Unite and the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance are partnering to create a risk assessment tool to help insurers identify vessels at risk of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
Read moreGlasgow – 3 November 2021 – The Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau has announced a significant commitment to the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA).
Read morePrivate and public investors must collaborate with coastal communities and support locally led investable products and projects
Read moreUrgent action from business, governments and financiers can avoid losing £6.19 trillion in ocean-based investments
Read moreConvergence, the global network for blended finance, is joining the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA) as an institutional partner.
Read moreBy Chip Cunliffe, Co-Chair of the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance, and María José González, Executive Director of the MAR Fund
Read moreLondon, Washington 13THof August 2021 – The Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA) is today announcing it has secured the financial backing of the UK Government’s Blue Planet Fund.
Read moreKaren Sack & Chip Cunliffe – As the US and Canada experience heat domes, Southern Africa enters the third year of drought and China and Europe suffer devastating floods, the 100-day countdown to COP26 begins.
Read moreLondon, Washington 23rd of July 2021 – The Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA) is today calling for a new generation of investors to “back blue” in a milestone year for climate and biodiversity.
Read moreORRAA and the Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR) have formed an Institutional Partnership to collaborate on financing and implementing projects that advance coral reef conservation and coastal resilience.
Read moreLord Zac Goldsmith, UK International Environment Minister, has announced that the UK Government is moving from being an observer to a full member of ORRAA...
Read moreORRAA is delighted to welcome Deutsche Bank as a full member and as its leading global partner from the banking sector...
Read moreORRAA ran its first Ocean Resilience Innovation Challenge in late 2020 to surface finance and insurance innovations that build coastal resilience to ocean change while delivering a return on investment...
Read moreIn a Virgin Unite blog, ORRAA Co-Chairs Karen Sack and Chip Cunliffe discuss the need for a transformative global response to ocean risk...
Read moreWriting for the World Economic Forum’s Agenda, ORRAA’s Karen Sack, Chip Cunliffe and Nathaniel Matthews set out how...
Read moreIn a piece written for the 2020 Paris Peace Forum, José María Figueres (Board Chair, Ocean Unite) and Denis Duverne (Chairman, AXA Group and Chairman, Insurance Development Forum) set out the urgency to better understand...
Read moreThe mounting evidence of the environmental, human and economic costs of ocean changes demand urgent and meaningful action to address ocean risk. And yet, our global response has not, so far, matched the scale and complexity of the challenge...
Read moreKaren Sack, Chip Cunliffe and Nathaniel Matthews explain how ORRAA is using innovative finance mechanisms to help protect and regenerate coastal ecosystems in China Dialogue Ocean...
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