Webinar. Who Counts? Putting People at the Heart of Ocean Decisions
A three-part GOAP webinar series exploring how countries are making people, livelihoods and ocean dependencies more visible in ocean data and decision-making.
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Global Ocean Accounts Partnership
Advancing ocean accounting worldwide through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and capacity building
About GOAP
The Global Ocean Accounts Partnership is bringing together governments, international organisations, researchers, and practitioners to advance ocean accounting worldwide.
We support countries in developing ocean accounts based on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) – providing technical guidance, capacity building, and a platform for knowledge exchange.
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Ghana Ocean Accounts Roadmap Workshop
Ghana Ocean Accounts Roadmap Workshop. Bringing together stakeholders to identify national priorities, map ocean information flows, and shape a roadmap for Ocean Accounts in Ghana.
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Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences joins the GOAP Membership
By GOAP secretariat
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences joins GOAP, bringing leading ocean science and research expertise to the partnership’s global network.
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Latest Publications
Technical guidance, research, reports and knowledge products from the ocean accounting community
Technical Guidance on Ocean Accounting
The Technical Guidance outlines how to compile, use and maintain ocean accounts. The latest release is now open for global consultation
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Handbook on Developing National Plastics Data Systems
A practical guide to help governments build national data systems that track plastics throughout the lifecycle and inform evidence-based policy.
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An implementation roadmap for Australia's Ocean Accounts
A phased roadmap for Australia to implement national Ocean Accounts, developed through the National Marine Science Committee process to inform the 2026–2035 National Marine Science Strategy.
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Bogor Strategic Action Plan
The Bogor Strategic Action Plan is a practical roadmap for scaling ocean accounts across the Global South, developed by attendees during the South-South Ocean Accounting Exchange in March 2026 in Bogor, Indonesia.
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Social Accounts in the Maldives
The Maldives has begun integrating the social domain into national Ocean Accounts frameworks.
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The Integrated Ocean Carbon Research Report
The Integrated Ocean Carbon Research (IOC-R) Report, developed by 72 authors and 13 reviewers from 23 countries, offers the most comprehensive evaluation to date of the processes driving ocean carbon uptake and storage, and identifies the research priorities required to strengthen global climate planning.
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Latest Events
Recent webinars, workshops, and conferences from the ocean accounting community
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Webinar. From Roadmap to Practice: A National Conversation on Australia's Ocean Accounts Implementation
Australia has a new roadmap for implementing Ocean Accounts. This webinar will explore how that roadmap can move into practice, where implementation can begin now, and who needs to be involved.
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Webinar. Who Counts? Putting People at the Heart of Ocean Decisions
A three-part GOAP webinar series exploring how countries are making people, livelihoods and ocean dependencies more visible in ocean data and decision-making.
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Past Event
Ghana Ocean Accounts Roadmap Workshop
Ghana Ocean Accounts Roadmap Workshop. Bringing together stakeholders to identify national priorities, map ocean information flows, and shape a roadmap for Ocean Accounts in Ghana.
View Details
Our Focus Areas
Technical Guidance
Developing methodologies and standards for ocean accounting aligned with SEEA
Capacity Building
Training programs and workshops to support countries in implementing ocean accounts
Knowledge Sharing
Fostering collaboration through regional Communities of Practice
Latest Insights
Expert perspectives, newsletters, and news from the ocean accounting community
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences joins the GOAP Membership
By GOAP secretariat
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences joins GOAP, bringing leading ocean science and research expertise to the partnership’s global network.
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News Vol. 15 | August 2026
Ocean accounting from around the world delivered to you. Highlights from the Our Oceans Conference in Kenya, Social Accounts, Indonesian Fellows in Australia, New regional directors
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Protecting a reef takes more than a boundary: Ocean Accounting for Gili Matra
By Hadi Yoga Dewanto and Bella Charlesworth
An ocean accounting pilot at Indonesia's Gili Matra Islands is using governance accounts to inform marine protection that lasts.
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Madagascar: Accounting for Coral Reefs and the Blue Economy
Ocean Accounts Fellows in Madagascar are developing ocean accounts for coastal and coral reef change, and the ecosystem services they provide to local communities.
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Social data for Mozambique's coastal communities
Community-based social data is being collected in Inhambane Bay, Mozambique to feed into a future pilot Social Account, through the work of Ocean Revolution Mozambique and World Resources Institute and support from the UK Government’s Blue Planet Fund.
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Solomon Islands: measuring what matters in a nation that runs on the sea
The Pacific's first internationally standardised maritime accounts put a value on a fleet, a workforce and a lifeline that national statistics had never captured.
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- UNEP-WCMC IGO
- World Bank IGO
- International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) Research Institute
- HELCOM IGO
- Conservation Strategy Fund – Global NGO
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