PARTNERS

The Blue Recovery Hubs are a joint initiative of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Friends of Ocean Action and the World Economic Forum’s sustainable finance team.

Friends of Ocean Action is a unique, informal group of ocean leaders who are fast-tracking solutions to the most pressing challenges facing the ocean. Its members come from business, civil society, international organizations, science and technology. The group, created in January 2018, is co-chaired by Ambassador Peter Thomson, the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean, and Isabella Lövin, former deputy prime minister of Sweden. Friends of Ocean Action is a joint initiative between the World Economic Forum and World Resources Institute, and also works alongside the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy.

OECD has a long-standing history in ocean-related work and in 2019, launched the Sustainable Ocean for All Initiative to support a transition to a global ocean economy that is truly sustainable and that developing countries can benefit from. The Initiative aims to:

(i) enhance the knowledge base and policy options available to developing countries;

(ii) develop new evidence on development co-operation approaches to foster more effective and coordinated actions;

iii) mobilise and align finance to the sustainable ocean economy through adequate domestic policies as well as better aligned development finance and international co-operation efforts; and

(iv) increase opportunities for dialogue and mutual learning across countries and within ocean-related communities around the world.

The UK’s Blue Planet Fund, administered by the UK’s Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, has provided the funding to engage Fiji and Samoa and scale efforts to explore regional partnerships.