At the close of the “Towards COP31 Seas and Oceans Summit” in Trabzon, Climate Change President Prof. Dr. Halil Hasar announced the 13-point Trabzon Ocean Action Call.
Highlights of the call
- Restoring marine and coastal ecosystems
- Scaling up nature-based solutions
- Strengthening cooperation between governments, financial institutions and the private sector
- Implementing the Paris Agreement and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework together
- Improving developing countries' access to climate finance and technology
- Strengthening the use of science, technology and innovation
Blue Dialogue and “Blue Finance”
Answering questions from journalists from 17 countries during the summit's Blue Dialogue Programme, COP31 President Murat Kurum noted that oceans absorb around 29 percent of global CO₂ emissions and introduced a “Blue Finance” mechanism to match projects with funding. Kurum also said that the six pilot countries of the climate implementation mechanism would be announced in New York.
