Sustainable Ocean Principles

The United Nations Global Compact has various reports and recommendations to guide the public and private sector to foster sustainable and growing ocean business over the next decade.

This UN Global Compact action-oriented narrative synthesizes the key insights gathered through a series of webinars organized in 2020 on the climate-nature-health nexus, in the framework of the Business Ambition for Climate and Health Action Platform. Reminding the business case for taking integrated climate and health action, it provides guidance on how companies can deliver climate and health co-benefits by pointing towards relevant action-oriented initiatives. It focuses on: air pollution, nature and biodiversity, food systems, water resilience, and the future of work and just transition.

This UNGC report produced in consultation with over 300 stakeholders, identified five tipping points for a healthy and productive ocean that represent a set of tangible objectives to address ocean sustainability challenges.