FUTURE OCEAN ALLIANCE

The Future Ocean Alliance (FOA) is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit, neutral and independent global entity that creates an alliance of organizations and individuals seeking to address the concerns of governmental and non-governmental researchers and decision-makers. FOA's constituency is dedicated to integrating the best practices of governance processes via its knowledge sharing network. It will seek to do so at the earliest stages of decision-making, and at all scales, to enhance the sustainable development of the ocean from the local to the global levels... FOA is a response to the expressed need by the international community for a coordination mechanism that helps formal institutions and communities of practice adapting to new and emergent needs in ocean management and knowledge and delivering solutions for a healthy sustainable ocean. We aim to transform fragmentation, overlaps and competition into synergies, connectivity, and co-production for integration of institutions, of..

Primary location: Lisboa Portugal