Ocean Centres Brazil
Ocean Centres Brazil convened a national multi-stakeholder platform to address systemic safety challenges across the country's ocean economy, with a focus on four priority areas: Shipping and Ports, Fishing and Aquaculture, Finance and Investment, and Offshore Renewables. Through a structured series of eight workshops conducted between October 2025 and March 2026, the initiative brought together representatives from government, industry, finance, labour organisations, academia, and civil society to identify critical risks, align priorities, and define actionable pathways towards a safer and more sustainable ocean economy.
Key Findings Report
Ocean Centres Brazil by the numbers
Workshop participations by sector
385 total"Others" includes individuals who participated without representing a specific organisation or sector.
Private companies made up 44% of all participations, joined by government, academia and 27 participations from intergovernmental and international organisations — a sign that Brazil's port decarbonisation and blue finance agenda is drawing in the actors who can deliver it.
61 organisations and 18 individuals have formally committed to Ocean Centres Brazil, giving the centre both the institutional weight and the expert voices it needs for the Extension Phase and its National Action Plan.
Three things you need to know about Ocean Centres Brazil
Safety is a critical enabling condition for a sustainable ocean economy. Brazil's ocean sectors face persistent and systemic safety challenges, including aging fishing fleets, climate-vulnerable port infrastructure, and gaps in occupational safety governance.
Social and occupational safeguards must be systematically integrated into financial frameworks. As the country expands investments in the sustainable ocean economy, worker safety, human rights, and just transition principles should be embedded as core criteria in blue finance frameworks, strengthening risk management, resilience, and long-term investment outcomes.
Brazil's ocean transition depends on strong multi-stakeholder collaboration. Addressing the country's complex ocean challenges requires coordinated action among government, industry, financial institutions, workers, academia, and civil society. Ocean Centres Brazil demonstrates how this collaborative approach can accelerate practical, scalable, and people-centred solutions.
The key achievements, the full set of safety challenges and recommendations, and the workshop-by-workshop evidence are in the Ocean Centres Brazil report (PDF).
