Description: The Ocean Resilience and Climate Alliance (ORCA) is a philanthropic initiative that seeks to identify and fund ocean-climate solutions across mitigation, sequestration, adaptation, and resilience.
Ocean Resilience and Climate Alliance (ORCA) The Ocean Resilience and Climate Alliance (ORCA) is a philanthropic initiative that seeks to identify and fund ocean-climate solutions across mitigation, sequestration, adaptation, and resilience. ORCA’s principal function is to provide a surge of more than $300 million dollars in grants over four years to catalyze work across a handful of immediate ocean-climate priorities. These priorities have been developed in consultation with the ocean and climate donor com
We have long known that the marine environment and coastal communities are at profound risk from climate change. Ocean acidification and deoxygenation, rising seas, shifting stocks, superstorms, empty nets—climate change will have enormous effects on ocean health, and it threatens a future mass extinction event. These effects have already begun, and they are accelerating. Simultaneously, the well-being of 1.4 billion people in low elevation regions, whose livelihoods often depend on the ocean, is in jeopard
Recent analysis shows that ocean-based climate interventions could represent nearly half of the carbon solutions needed to keep warming below 2°C, if scaled to their fullest potential. Efforts across ocean energy, coastal habitat restoration, shipping, and carbon dioxide removal will be components of this decade’s fight against climate change but have not been prioritized to date. In tandem, conservation professionals have begun exploring how we can strengthen and adapt traditional conservation priorities t