The GOAP Secretariat has prepared a series of policy briefs outlining how ocean accounts can be integrated into different frameworks and concepts to accelerate and support the transition to a sustainable ocean economy.

Briefs available

Coastal livelihoods

  • Sustaining Coastal Livelihoods through Integrated Ocean Accounting
  • Building Coastal Resilience: The Role of Ocean Accounting in Disaster Risk Reduction

Progress towards global targets

  • Using Ocean Accounts to Monitor Progress Towards the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) Goals

Intergrating ocean accounts into other mechanisms

  • An Integrated Data Framework for Sustainable Marine and Coastal Tourism
  • Leveraging Ocean Accounts for Effective Marine Spatial Planning
  • Guidance Summary: Setting Up Ocean Economy Satellite Accounts
  • Tourism Satellite Accounts: What are they and what data is needed?

Finance for the ocean

  • Utilising Ocean Accounts to Mobilise Private Sector Investment in the Sustainable Ocean Economy
  • Ocean Accounts – Understanding the Impact of Public Finance Investments
  • Guidance summary: Blue Public Expenditure Review