Driving investment into ocean resilience

The Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA) is the only multi-sector collaboration connecting the finance and insurance sectors, governments, multilateral organisations, civil society, and academia to pioneer finance and insurance products that incentivise investment into coastal and ocean resilience, and a regenerating ocean through Nature-based Solutions.

The mission, by 2030, is to activate at least $500 million of investment through finance and insurance products to build the resilience of 250 million climate vulnerable coastal people in the Global South.

ORRAA is delivering system-wide change by growing an investable product pipeline and generating the transformative investment instruments, vehicles and policies that contribute to a regenerative and sustainable ocean and blue economy. These solutions enable coastal communities and the Ocean to adapt and thrive, creating greater economic, social and cultural resilience.

Our work bridges local and global efforts through a three-pronged strategy from beachfront to boardroom, that ensures alignment across community-driven initiatives; public and philanthropic sector policy, regulation and support; and private-sector investment. 

This integrated and systemic approach addresses critical challenges including the perceived lack of an investable product pipeline, risk and market fragmentation, and limited understanding of the regenerative and sustainable blue economy space. It also highlights interconnections to other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and importantly, the incredible investment opportunities in the regenerative and sustainable ocean economy that are often hidden in plain sight.