Guidance

Leveraging national social data for Ocean Accounts

This report outlines a social data audit methodology which can be used as a first step in compiling social data within the ocean accounting framework.

Handbook on Sustainable Ocean Plans: A Practitioners’ Guide

The ‘Handbook on Sustainable Ocean Plans: A Practitioners’ Guide’ provides a practical framework to help countries design and implement Sustainable Ocean Plans (SOPs). SOPs are comprehensive, country-driven frameworks to sustainably manage 100% of the ocean area under national jurisdiction.

Training. Introduction to SEEA and Ocean Accounts

This training provides an overview of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts (SEEA) and introduction to Ocean Accounts, including the integration of environmental, economic and social values.

The Power of Data: the potential of Ocean Accounts for marine restoration

We are all familiar with images of bleached coral reefs

Policy brief: The need for data on plastics – ensuring a transparent, equitable and ambitious global agreement to end plastic pollution

Authors: Eliza Northrop, Emily Belonje, Dr Randika Jayasinghe, Helena Dickinson

Financing to Secure a Sustainable Future for Marine Protected Areas

Author: Arlette Schramm Read the policy brief Marine Protected Areas

Data-driven solutions: the Plastics Data Checklist

In the context of the global plastic treaty, this Checklist outlines data required to understand the flows of plastics through a national economy and into the environment

Ocean Accounts for Sustainable Ocean Plans: Enabling Decision-Makers to Measure Progress

Read the report Introduction The ocean economy is a complex

Policy Briefs

The GOAP Secretariat has prepared a series of policy briefs

Ocean Accounts as a Catalyst for Blue Bonds

In the latest policy brief, finance expert Arlette Schramm, unpacks