2025-2027
Framework
MISSION
Pacific Environment confronts our most urgent environmental issues by connecting local and global movements, catalyzing policy change, and inspiring action for the benefit of people and our planet. Together, we promote a healthy climate, reduce pollution and conserve biodiversity for an equitable and thriving future.
VISION
Pacific Environment envisions a just and healthy future for all communities and ecosystems.
VALUES
Building power for systemic change: From grassroots to global, we partner with communitiesto build power for justice and systems change.
Evidence-based solutions for the planet: We catalyze change through people-powered advocacy and by grounding our work in science and traditional, Indigenous and local knowledge.
Collaborative relationships, coalition building, and partnerships: We strive to build trusted relationships through coalitions and partnerships grounded in care, creativity, and collaboration.
Making transformative, long-term impacts: We have the ambition, strategies, and expertise to overcome significant challenges and make transformative, sustainable impacts.
Further strengthen our unique and critical role in bridging government and community towards achieving marine 30x30 goals throughout Southeast Asia.
• Advocate for formal community roles through recognition in local/national policies focusing on marine resources management to make MPAs/OECMs more effective, especially in Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
• Successfully pilot co-management initiatives in new/ existing sites in Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam and document/share lessons learned with other countries, funders, and partners.
• Advance regional collaboration through peer-to-peer exchanges amongst marine conservation leaders in countries with high biodiversity.
• Based on individual country needs assessments, provide multi-sectoral capacity building in effective MPA/ OECM management, customized to each country: Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
• Explore opportunities and leverage internal capacity to advance Arctic and/ or Latin America engagement, ASEAN regional coordination (e.g. ASEAN Center for Biodiversity), and/ or other international treaties (e.g. BBNJ, CBD, WTO).
Diversify
campaign strategies to ‘Keep the Arctic Frozen’ and protect the region.
• IMO: Reduce/Eliminate Black Carbon Emissions from Shipping in the Arctic. Institute an Emission Control Area for Alaska to bridge the gap between the Canadian Arctic ECA and the North American ECA.
• Arctic Council: Increase collaboration with the Black Carbon & Methane Expert Group - Make sure that BC from shipping is a source they set reduction targets for (it has not been in the past).
• Arctic communities: Increase outreach to Arctic communities through regional partners, promote their priorities in interntional fora like the IMO. Provide information about the benefits of an Alaska ECA.
• Alaska: Transition Alaska away from it’s current petro-state status. Work to halt or limit the Alaska Gas Line, and new offshore oil and gas exploration and development.
• Explore collaboration with Global Choices who advocate for a 10year moratorium on all commercial activities in the Central Arctic Ocean through “Arctic Angels”, however, as of now they have not established a presence in Alaska.
• Explore collaboration with Equal Routes.
Expand the impact of our campaign to transform the global shipping industry to end fossil fuel shipping by 2040.
• Scale our proven policy and ports-based approach in the U.S. and East Asia to accelerate green shipping in both regions and beyond.
• Ensure impactful implementation of IMO GHG framework on and ramp up for a robust GHG Strategy review in 2028.
• Spur the rapid installation of clean energy in strategic locations to support and accelerate green shipping, building on offshore wind success in South Korea.
• Explore strategies to accelerate the uptake of green maritime fuels at key U.S. and East Asian ports to activate green shipping corridors.
• Secure corporate and industry investments in zero emissions shipping through leveraging the weight of early corporate movers, supporting ZE shipping initiatives and advancing collective action across sectors.
Diversify and strengthen our plastics campaigns to put plastic production and consumption on a downward China, Vietnam, and the US trajectory by 2030.
• Achieve global policy: Support the process to achieve a binding global instrument that reduces plastic pollution and effective adoption and implementation in China and Vietnam; limit the current US administration’s influence/industry influence on the treaty. Expore strategies for work at Basel Convention and IMO.
• Strengthen national and local policy: With a particular focus on addressing key policy bottlenecks or barriers to progress on SUP elimination and reuse uptake; in China, strengthen the new Environmental Code to include plastic, demonstrate the limits of recycling as a policy solution, and link plastic restriction with green development goals; in Vietnam, strengthen policy on EPR, reuse, plastic phase-outs, and circular economy. Build a diverse coalition to advocate for a US waste export ban, among NGOs, states, and waste management sector.
• Leverage key sectors as entry points to drive large-scale transformative practices, thereby building a vision for future scenarios and advancing systemic change across the entire plastic value chain—including a clearer phase-out pathway for single-use plastics.
• Plastic Production/Industrial Sector Transition: Support China NGO engagement on plastic production (upstream) efforts; engage with regional alliances; (shared strategy with Goal #1) promote a collective agreement on the peak (cap) timeline and transition pathway for China’s petrochemical sector, and to actively initiate its transformation process.
Build a stronger industry transition movements in China by engaging grassroots and other stakeholders to meet global climate, biodiversity, and environmental goals.
• Industrial Sector Transition: Promote a collective agreement on the peak (cap) timeline and transition pathway for China’s petrochemical sector, and to actively initiate its transformation process.
• Plastics: Leverage key sectors as entry points to drive large-scale transformative practices, thereby building a vision for future scenarios and advancing systemic change across the entire plastic value chain—including a clearer phase-out pathway for single-use plastics.
• Shipping: Establish clear goals and core narratives for the green transition of China’s shipping industry and build broad consensus around them. Based on this shared understanding, facilitate joint actions among key stakeholders.
• Local Action: Achieve a true transformation of Chinese grassroots organizations, with a new wave of recognized, strategic, capable, and impactful groups emerging around key environmental issues—especially those mentioned above. Grassroots organizations evolve from primarily focusing on compliance monitoring to becoming proactive actors that consciously drive systemic change.
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