Environmental Justice Tracker

EJ Tracker Update

OSTP Released Ocean Climate Action Plan

Last updated:

March 21, 2023

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White House

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Guidance/Policy

OSTP’s Ocean Policy Committee released a comprehensive Ocean Climate Action Plan (OCAP), with three main goals: (1) create a carbon-neutral future, (2) accelerate nature-based solutions , and (3) enhance community resilience to ocean change. The plan identified cross-cutting principles and related OCAP actions, including engagement with tribal nations and indigenous peoples, including formal nation-to-nation consultation and consideration of Indigenous knowledge; and advancing environmental justice by developing an Ocean Justice Strategy to identify barriers to integrating EJ principles into federal ocean activities.