{"id":29781,"date":"2025-02-01T03:43:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T22:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29781"},"modified":"2025-04-09T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:18:24","slug":"ocean-coordination-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ocean-coordination-mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Coordination Mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ocean Coordination Mechanism Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (UNESCO-IOC) announced the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) enabling the creation of the Ocean Coordination Mechanism (OCM).\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Ocean Coordination Mechanism<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was conceived under the <strong>10-year CLME+ Strategic Action Program<\/strong> (CLME+ SAP), endorsed by countries in the Wider Caribbean in 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Its purpose is to establish a collaborative governance framework for the <strong>sustainable management of marine resources.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>To coordinate and streamline actions <strong>addressing critical marine issues<\/strong> such as sustainable fisheries, ecosystem restoration, pollution control, blue carbon development, marine spatial planning, and the establishment of marine protected areas.<\/li>\n<li>It solidifies a transformative effort to <strong>enhance integrated ocean governance<\/strong> in the Wider <strong>Caribbean region<\/strong>, including the <strong>North Brazil Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is designed to foster collaboration among countries, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and key stakeholders.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funding:<\/strong> It will receive funding from the <strong>Global Environment Facility<\/strong> (GEF) through the $15 million UNDP\/GEF PROCARIBE+ Project for the <strong>period 2024\u20132028.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Significance of Ocean Coordination Mechanism\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>The OCM is pivotal in addressing the Ocean-Climate-Biodiversity nexus by facilitating cross-country and cross-institutional collaboration. It ensures the <strong>sustainable development of the blue economy <\/strong>while prioritizing the needs of the most vulnerable communities.<\/p>\n<h2>Ocean Coordination Mechanism FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1: <\/strong>What does UNESCO stand for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong> Where is the headquarters of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Paris, France<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3: <\/strong>What is the global environment facility?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a multilateral family of funds dedicated to confronting biodiversity loss, climate change, and pollution, and supporting land and ocean health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/wildlife-biodiversity\/ocean-coordination-mechanism-latest-initiative-to-conserve-caribbean-and-north-brazil-shelf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean Coordination Mechanism was conceived under the 10-year CLME+ Strategic Action Program (CLME+ SAP), endorsed by countries in the Wider Caribbean in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}