Portugal joins the Ocean Acidification Alliance

Portugal joined today the Ocean Acidification Alliance.

The mission of this international alliance, which now has 17 countries, is to fight the threat represented by ocean acidification to marine ecosystems and the coastal economies that depend on them.

By joining the OA Alliance and approving the call for action, members undertake to draft a national AO action plan to fight ocean acidification.

These plans enable Governments to increase their ambition to mitigate the carbon emissions and include action measures to better understand and respond to the threat caused by ocean acidification and other stress factors in the integrated ocean-atmosphere system.

The Ocean Acidification Alliance (OA Alliance) is a voluntary initiative that brings together Governments and non-governmental players with a view to counter and mitigate ocean acidification.

The OA Alliance was launched in 2021 with the following main objectives: 

(i) Raising awareness of ocean acidification

(ii) Fostering research on ocean acidification, and

(iii) Developing solutions to mitigate the impacts of ocean acidification.

Portugal’s membership was formalised by the Secretary of State for Maritime Affairs Lídia Bulcão, who is in Costa Rica attending the Immersed in Change conference, whose aim is to prepare the UN Conference to be held in France in 2025.