International Coral Reef Initiative

Assembled from 19 blocks · 2 evidence · 12 related

1. Story
2. An informal partnership of governments, international organisations and non-governmental bodies formed in the mid-1990s to raise reef conservation on the international agenda, with no treaty basis and no enforcement power. Its instruments are the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, which compiles the periodic Status of Coral Reefs of the World reports, and its convening role: it is jointly with NOAA Coral Reef Watch the body that declares a global bleaching event, which is a statement of fact about satellite thermal stress rather than a decision anyone can take unilaterally. Its structure is worth noticing. Reefs cross jurisdictions and the bodies with the strongest measurement capacity are often not the ones with the most reef, so the international arrangement that emerged is a voluntary coalition around shared observation rather than a regulatory regime around shared obligation.
3. Knowledge
4. International Coral Reef Initiative
5. The fourth global bleaching event is confirmed
6. Connections
7. The fourth global bleaching event is confirmed
8. The International Coral Reef Initiative is formed
9. The fourth global bleaching event is confirmed
10. The current state of the fourth global bleaching event is not established in this package
11. NOAA Coral Reef Watch
12. International Coral Reef Initiative
13. NOAA Coral Reef Watch
14. International Coral Reef Initiative
15. Coral bleaching
16. Degree Heating Weeks (DHW)
17. Evidence
18. Around sixteen per cent of the world's reef-building corals died in the 1998 global bleaching event, with losses very unevenly distributed and most severe in the western Indian Ocean. V55 verification basis: not consulted; the sixteen per cent figure is the widely repeated headline of this report and is stated from the producing model's knowledge, not read from the report. The regional breakdown behind it was not checked.
19. NOAA Coral Reef Watch and ICRI confirmed in April 2024 that bleaching-level heat stress across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean basins constituted a fourth global bleaching event, with the affected share of world reef area subsequently reported as rising above that of any previous event. V55 verification basis: NOT retrieved. The April 2024 confirmation is stated from the producing model's knowledge; no percentage of affected reef area is quoted here, and the state of the event as of August 2026 is not established — see EVT_GLOBAL_EVENT_STATE_2026.