The
amount was first announced Thursday by Washington's climate
envoy John Kerry at an oceans conference in Panama and
encompasses 77 different commitments, the U.S. State Department
said in a press release on Friday.
The total includes some $3 billion in climate resilience and
climate research commitments that were part of the Inflation
Reduction Act passed by Congress last year, according to the
State Department.
The commitments also include more than $665 million for
sustainable fisheries and more than $200 million tackling marine
pollution.
"The climate crisis and the ocean crisis are one and the same.
We cannot fully address one without the other," Kerry said
Thursday at the "Our Ocean 2023" conference, which brought
together private and public sector representatives from over 190
countries.
Of the 77 commitments, 30 are directed at climate change,
amounting to about $5 billion of the total.
Some of the pledges still require authorization by the U.S.
Congress.
Washington's announcement comes alongside the European Union's
announcement Thursday of commitments worth 816.5 million euros
($867.45 million).
(Reporting by Milagro Vallecillos in Panama City and Brendan
O'Boyle in Mexico City; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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