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THE PRINCE ALBERT II OF MONACO FOUNDATION

In June 2006, H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco Since 2010, the Foundation together with
decided to create his Foundation as a response the oceanographic Museum of Monaco has
to the challenges facing our planet. Active at an organised the Monaco Blue Initiative, a thinktank
international level, the Prince Albert II of Monaco focused on MPAs. It also launched the Monaco
Foundation works to advance environmental Ocean Week, which hosts more than 30 events
protection and the promotion of sustainable each year featuring speakers of the highest level.
development by mobilising citizens, political
leaders, scientists, NGOs and economic actors. Regarding climate and the ocean, the
Foundation has brought together a number
Since its creation, the Foundation has focused of organisations based in the Principality such
its activity on three major issues: climate change, as the Scientific Centre of Monaco and the
biodiversity and water resource management. It International Atomic Energy Agency’s marine
targets three priority areas: the Mediterranean, laboratory to create the Monegasque Association
the Polar Regions and Least Developed for Ocean Acidification.
Countries (LDC). With the support of the government of Monaco
For several years, ocean conservation has been and a number of other countries, the Foundation
a key concern of the Foundation. also instigated the future IPCC report on Oceans
and Climate, due in September 2019.
The Foundation mobilizes funding to assist
projects in the field. It also initiates campaigns The Prince and his Foundation actively pushed
such as the fight against plastics pollution in for the Paris Agreement to explicitly include
the Mediterranean through the BeMed initiative, the ocean. Together with the government of
the protection of the monk seal by bringing Chile, they launched the “Because the Ocean”
together leading specialists and the development Declaration in which 23 signatory countries call
of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), by creating for the development of specific ocean-related
an environmental fund for MPAs in the measures in their national climate change
Mediterranean with France and Tunisia. mitigation and adaptation plans.

The Foundation also works hard on sustainable
management of sea resources. To this end,
together with the Monaco government, it has
worked to recover bluefin tuna stocks in the
Mediterranean and is in charge of developing the
Mr.Goodfish campaign along the Mediterranean
coast. Mr.Goodfish aims to raise awareness
amongst the public and professionals regarding
sustainable seafood consumption and the ways
they can act to preserve marine resources.

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