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become an oa alliance member

Since its launch, the OA Alliance has grown to over 140 members representing a diversity of national, state, municipal, and sovereign tribal, indigenous, and First Nation governments along with many dedicated affiliate partners like NGOs, seafood industry leaders, and local academia. 

Together, we are increasing ambition for climate action and transforming response to climate-ocean change. By tackling the issue of ocean acidification, members are choosing to advance the science, policy and communications needed for successful climate-ocean action, locally and globally

government member

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The Alliance invites membership from countries, Tribes and First Nations, states, regions, provinces, counties, cities, and Ports that are concerned about the impacts of ocean acidification.  As a government member of the OA Alliance, you commit to creating a unique OA Action Plan which outlines actionable responses to climate- ocean threats in your region and helps to leverage existing expertise, partners and resources.

OA Action Plans will advance some—or all—of the following goals:

  • Reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions, the number one cause of ocean acidification

  • Advance scientific understanding of climate-ocean impacts

  • Reduce local pollutions that exacerbate ocean acidification

  • Protect the environment and coastal communities from climate-ocean impacts

  • Expand public awareness

  • Sustain international and multi-governmental support for addressing this global problem

Find more on how to create your own action plan

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affiliate member

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The Alliance invites universities, non-governmental organizations, industry leaders, associations, businesses, and other official entities to join and participate as affiliate members.

As an affiliate member, you commit to elevating the issue of ocean acidification within your own institution, business or organization and helping to advance the work of the OA Alliance in keeping with your own capacity, resources, and networks.

You are also encouraged to create an OA Action Plan that will help guide your institution, business or organization to support or directly implement actionable responses to climate-ocean threats while helping to leverage existing expertise, partners and resources.

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Benefits & Support for Members

  • Join a group of leaders who are impacting discussions across climate and ocean platforms, ensuring that climate and ocean commitments, policies and communications accurately reflect their interdependence.

    Through the OA Alliance, members are stepping up and taking policy action.

  • The OA Alliance utilizes inclusive processes and excellent facilitation skills to identify the biggest needs of our members when it comes to uses of acidification science, applications of policy and governance and effective communications.

    We provide our members with OA Action Plan Toolkits, policy guidance, communications resources and access to ocean acidification scientists from their region.

  • Members are engaged through periodic convenings at high-level international oceans and climate-related conferences and meetings.

    Speaking engagements, panels, ceremonies, workshops and webinars help connect members to each other and are organized throughout the year.

  • As a member, you will be supported in your efforts with:

    • Calls between your government and the OA Alliance.

    • Surveys to better identify your needs, goals, and capacities.

    • Webinars to help your government through the process of crafting ocean acidification policy that fits within your governance landscape.

    • Access to regional working groups and our large member network.

    • In-person meetings of members at high-level conferences.

  • Participate in ocean related discussions across the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

    Implement UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14.3 “to minimize and address ocean acidification.”

    Identify useful ocean acidification science for policy action utilizing the OA Science for Action Framework endorsed by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainability.

  • Joining the Alliance has no legal effect; imposes no legally binding obligation enforceable in any court of law or other tribunal of any sort, nor creates any funding expectation; nor shall signatories be responsible for actions of third parties or associates.