Clean Ports and Oceans in the Philippines

Climate action

Jan 3

Who: World Wildlife Fund for Nature

What: Improving port waste management

Where: Phillipines

Project period: 2020-2023

Web: WWF

Marine litter is one of the fastest-growing environmental problems in the world and threatens biodiversity, ecosystems and livelihoods. The challenges are particularly pronounced in Southeast Asia, including in the Philippines.

The Grieg Foundation has started a new project with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), entitled “Clean ports, clean oceans. Improving port waste management in the Philippines”. The three-year project aims to reduce the flow of plastic waste entering nature and the ocean in the Philippines, by improving waste management in ports.

The project will focus on three ports and aims to achieve:

50% plastic waste reduction in at least 3 Philippine ports,
Provide input to the Philippine National Plan of Action on Marine Litter to highlight the importance of the port industry in addressing plastic pollution.
Document port waste management models to enable scaling up in other Philippine and global ports.

To achieve these objectives, the project will work with a wide range of stakeholders such as port authorities, city officials and businesses. Through the project, innovative solutions for waste management in ports will be developed and local communities will be involved.