To Save the World’s Oceans, We Must Take These Four Actions Now

To protect the world's oceans, the blog outlines four actions: valuing natural capital with nature-based solutions, building partnerships and regional cooperation, promoting sustainable investments and business models, and engaging local leaders and communities. These strategies aim to balance development with conservation, strengthen policy implementation, foster green investments, and empower local stakeholders.

Video (Siargao, Philippines Inception Workshop)

This workshop aims to:

  • build an understanding of the Philippine government priorities on strengthening reef resilience and sustainable management of coral reef ecosystems, including how this could enhance surfing and other marine-based tourism in Siargao;
  • outline the intended approach for assessing risk transfer / reef insurance opportunities within a pilot location in Siargao, including how this could serve as a model for other coastal municipalities, and;
  • gather insights for the detail assessment of the pilot location in Siargao.

Agenda (Siargao, Philippines Inception Workshop)

This workshop aims to:

  • build an understanding of the Philippine government priorities on strengthening reef resilience and sustainable management of coral reef ecosystems, including how this could enhance surfing and other marine-based tourism in Siargao;
  • outline the intended approach for assessing risk transfer / reef insurance opportunities within a pilot location in Siargao, including how this could serve as a model for other coastal municipalities, and;
  • gather insights for the detail assessment of the pilot location in Siargao.

Tanya Huizer

As project manager, Tanya has led multi-disciplinary projects at Arcadis since 2011. In 2015-2016, Tanya was seconded as Liaison Officer Water to the Netherlands Embassy in Myanmar. Tanya has lived in Myanmar ever since, started an office for Arcadis in 2016, and led the team, water and environment business development, and a multitude of projects on water resources, flooding, and strategic planning in Myanmar and Viet Nam.