Congratulations to the 16 applicants shortlisted under the Blue Climate Initiative Community Awards for Ocean-Related Climate Solutions!
- BrBio (Brazil): An Ocean of Women
- CEM (Honduras): Increasing climate resilience in Santa Fe, Honduras through networks of managed access with reserves and behavior change campaigns
- CORDIO (Kenya): Strengthening resilience to climate change through improved fisheries management
- Costa Humbolt (Chile): Community-lead coastal marine refuge network for biodiversity conservation, fisheries management, and climate resilience
- Environmental Defense Fund (Chile): Building climate resilience capacity for small-scale fishing communities through a collaborative learning approach
- Futuro Sostenible (Peru): Shifting to renewable energy for energy security in artisanal fishermen activities
- Gampong Development Institute Aceh (Indonesia): Saving the Mangrove Ecosystem
- Grand Bahama Disaster Relief Foundation, Coral Vita (Bahamas): The Coastal and Ocean resilience Action Lab
- ICLEI (Kiribati): Seaweed Cultivation in the South Tarawa
- ICCCAD, ICLEI (Bangladesh): Sustainable strategies for Development of Natural Resources in SundarBAN
- IFRZ (Tanzania): SeaPower
- Ocean Alive (Portugal): Keepers of the Sea: fisherwomen leaders for ocean conservation
- OneReef (Palau): Ocean Guardians: a nature-based solution to the coral reef crisis
- RARE (Philippines): Building a network of Climate-resilient coastal communities through community engagement and behavior adoption
- Te Pu Atita, GUMP, CRIOBE (France): Moorea 2030 Citizens Assembly for Island Sustainability
- VBF-CBO, WCS (Kenya): Vanga Blue Forest Project
These 16 organizations have been invited to submit full proposals in November and the winners will be announced in December 2020.