The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) has unveiled a Marine Biodiversity and Ocean Health Breakthrough Toolkit — a practical guide to help the maritime sector embed biodiversity co-benefits into decarbonisation strategies while advancing towards global climate targets.

The Toolkit aligns with the Ocean Breakthroughs agenda and the UNFCCC’s COP30 Action Agenda, enabling co-benefits for maritime stakeholders to unlock as they decarbonise. It is envisioned as a living document that incorporates new and emerging partnership opportunities and proactively responds to inputs from the maritime community.

The toolkit supports implementation of The 2030 Marine Biodiversity and Ocean Health Breakthrough and Roadmap by providing immediate opportunities for stakeholder groups to take actions aligned with objectives, themes and larger actions developed at COP29.

The transition to a low-carbon maritime sector offers a unique opportunity to restore and regenerate ocean ecosystems. Yet, for shipping companies decarbonisation is often treated as an isolated goal.

This aims Toolkit to bridge that gap. It supports shipping companies, policymakers, port authorities, financiers, and civil society actors in identifying opportunities for implementing biodiversity outcomes within decarbonisation efforts. The MBOH Breakthrough Toolkit supports the delivery of the Ocean Breakthroughs, contributing to the global objective of protecting and restoring marine ecosystems by 2030. It highlights the ocean’s dual role — as a climate regulator and a biodiversity powerhouse — reinforcing that progress to net-zero is deeply enmeshed with ocean health.

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