The Marine Regions Forum strives to strengthen ocean action at three different scales: Supporting progress within marine regions, advancing dialogue between marine regions, and giving regional ocean governance a voice in global processes
Governance at the regional level allows customized management strategies geared towards the specific environmental and socioeconomic circumstances of each region. National actions can be coordinated at the regional level, assisting States in meeting global commitments, and realising sustainable development. In addition, the regional level can be more flexible and can set more ambitious goals than the global level.
After the first international conference of the Marine Regions Forum took place in Berlin to launch this new initiative through an international, high-level, and engaging setting, the current focus of the Marine Regions Forum is two-fold:
i) applying a regional focus within the Western Indian Ocean to learn from experience and support transformative ocean action in the region, and
ii) continue to foster exchanges between marine regions and from the regional to global level.
