The Global Partnership for Oceans is a new and powerful approach to restoring ocean health.  It mobilizes finance and knowledge to activate proven solutions at an unprecedented scale for the benefit of communities, countries and global well-being.

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The GPO is a growing alliance of over 140 governments, international organizations, civil society groups, and private sector interests committed to addressing the threats to the health, productivity and resilience of the ocean.

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The Partnership aims to tackle documented problems of overfishing, pollution, and habitat loss.  Together these problems are contributing to the depletion of a natural resource bank that provides nutrition, livelihoods and vital ecosystem services.

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The World Bank has helped facilitate the development of the GPO because it has recognized that improving ocean health is fundamental to poverty reduction and economic growth.