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The report A Sustainable Blue Economy Toward Carbon Neutrality was released at an open forum on Integrating Land and Ocean to Promote Collaborative Governance during The China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) Annual General Meeting in Beijing on August 29. This report is one of 9 Special Policy Studies (SPS) for CCICED and jointly done by NRDC, Xiamen University, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Shanghai Ocean University, and others. 

NRDC's unique contribution to the report is the advocacy on reducing the carbon footprint through effective fishery governance. NRDC also emphasized the undermining role of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing on carbon reduction efforts and proposed strategies with international best practices to combat IUU. China's 14th Five-Year Plan for Fisheries Development set out the objective to harness the potential of fisheries as tools both for reducing emissions and acting as carbon sinks to support the dual carbon goals. The report provides timely recommendations towards realizing the fishery development goal.