Healthy marine ecosystems are critical for our well-being, but with a growing global population placing ever-greater demands on the ocean, challenges to marine and coastal health continue to increase in complexity and reach. This week, Secretary of State John Kerry is hosting the 2016 Our Ocean Conference in Washington, D.C., “catalyzing actions to protect our ocean from these threats and to empower a new generation to lead the way toward a healthy and sustainable ocean.”
At the conference, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has projected a commitment that, in total over the next five years, would contribute more than $220 million to ocean research and ocean-related conservation. See other commitments from participants here, and you can read Secretary Kerry's remarks at the closing session here. He notes that "Over the course of the last two days, this ocean conference, in order to protect marine ecosystems, to prevent pollution, to address the crippling impacts of climate change, has committed over $5.3 billion of money and initiatives in order to achieve those goals."
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation works through several grantmaking portfolios to tackle large, important ocean-related issues at a scale where we can achieve significant and measurable impacts. Our Marine Conservation Initiative, for example, works to create science-based, collaborative solutions to the problems of over-fished and poorly managed fisheries and habitat degradation, and to establish an integrated ocean and coastal management system that supports healthy ocean ecosystems that can sustain food, jobs and recreation--and increase resilience to climate change--over the long term. Read more about some of the other Moore Foundation initiatives that benefit oceans:
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