Educate

AZRAQ Objectives

Protect and Restore Marine
Ecosystems

Promote Environmental
Education

Advance Sustainability
Initiatives

Facilitate Collaborative
Partnerships

Advocate for Sustainable
Policy and Practices

Engage Communities in
Conservation

Combat Marine Debris

AZRAQ Project Impacts & Sites

AZRAQ And The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS)

The UN (SDGs) offer a blueprint for positive global change by 2030, and they guide how we measure the impact of every project we undertake. Our work supports healthy oceans and resilient ecosystems, but our impact extends beyond environmental gains. Through conservation projects like mangrove and coral planting, marine debris clean-ups, and community education, we support a sustainable future that aligns with the SDGs, empowering communities to take an active role in protecting our ocean and coastlines.

What are the nature-based solutions?

Nature-based solutions tackle societal challenges by protecting, managing, and restoring ecosystems, benefiting biodiversity and human well-being. They leverage healthy ecosystems to address issues like climate change, disaster risk, food and water security, biodiversity loss, and human health, playing a crucial role in sustainable economic development.

Nature-based solutions can address climate change in three ways

Decrease greenhouse gas emissions related to deforestation and land use

Capture and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Enhance resilience of ecosystems, and as such support societies to adapt to climate hazards

Implementing NBS in coastal and marine environments helps protect and restore critical habitats, enhance ecosystems, and build resilience to climate change impacts such as sea-level rise and ocean acidification.

Some examples of nature-based solutions include

Restoring coastal wetlands and mangrove forests for shoreline protection and carbon sequestration.

Protecting & restoring coral reefs that have been damaged by industrial activity or bleached

Implementating oyster reefs farms and seagrass beds to enhance fisheries productivity and improve water quality.

Enhancing resilience of ecosystems to support societies to adapt to climate hazards such as flooding, sea-level rise, and more frequent and intense droughts, floods, heatwaves, and wildfires

Why is this topic important?

Extreme Weather & Disasters

Climate change alters the frequency & intensity of extreme weather.
Storms, heat/cold waves, droughts, floods, wildfires has impacted 100+ million people yearly

Biodiversity Loss

Natural ecosystems declined by 47% on average.
About 25% of species are threatened with extinction (IPBES, 2023).

Without nature-based solutions, we can expect both of these issues to get progressively worse.

Why we protect the ocean?

The ocean is essential to life on Earth. It is everything; from the air we breathe to the water and food we consume.
The ocean is the largest ecosystem on Earth, it is the planet’s life support system.
The ocean generates half of the oxygen we breathe and, at any given moment, it contains more than 97% of the world’s water. The ocean provide at least a sixth of the animal protein people eat.
Living oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reduce climate change impacts.
The diversity and productivity of the world’s oceans is a vital interest for mankind. Our security, our economy, our very survival all require healthy oceans.