Mary Kay announced it joined the UN Global Compact’s Ocean Stewardship Coalition—an effort to bring together the private sector alongside UN agencies, academia, governments, and non-governmental organizations to address biodiversity and climate change through a focus on ocean health.
Mary Kay is currently a signatory of the UN Sustainable Ocean Principles. The Ocean Stewardship Coalition furthers Mary Kay’s commitment to securing a healthy and productive ocean. The Coalition seeks to leverage private sector involvement to increase ocean awareness and develop climate-smart innovation. It also calls upon stakeholders, including business leaders, to use climate-smart policies to address environmental and climate injustices as well as adopt a human-centered approach to policy solutions.
In alignment with the Sustainable Ocean Principles and the Ocean Stewardship Coalition, Mary Kay supported several projects this year in partnership with The Nature Conservancy to improve ocean health through the protection and restoration of critical habitats such as coral reefs, oyster reefs, and coastal wetlands, as well as to advance women’s leadership in conversation:
- Restoring Asia Pacific shellfish reefs in Australia, Hong Kong, China, the Coral Triangle;
- Ensuring that coral protection and restoration efforts in the Coral Triangle Countries – Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands – are supported through conservation efforts and initiatives that positively impact the whole region;
- Supporting women environmental leaders in the Pacific in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands;
- Coastal conservation and restoration in the Gulf Coast and assessing the feasibility of blue carbon markets to support long-term wetland management;
- Improving fisheries in Mexico to empower communities and women in the fishing industry
“Nature-based solution projects led by women are revolutionizing the way we protect our oceans for future generations. By joining the Ocean Stewardship Coalition, Mary Kay hopes to support these projects and inspire additional women to take action in their local communities,” said Deborah Gibbins, COO of Mary Kay.
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