🪸 🐠 ‼️ Below the ocean's surface, the Coral Triangle holds the world’s richest marine life. LNG carrier traffic happening above is putting it at risk.
Not every part of the Coral Triangle is covered in coral. But every part is connected.
To mark Coral Triangle Day, SFOC dove into Philippine waters off the coast in Bohol to see what is at stake from LNG shipping traffic in the region.
As LNG expansion accelerates, the ships enabling it are slipping through the cracks. LNG carriers are often excluded from environmental impact assessments, treated as “mobile” and outside project boundaries.
In reality, these vessels follow fixed routes, returning again and again. Each journey adds underwater noise, emissions, and cumulative stress to marine ecosystems.
🇯🇵🇰🇷Japanese shipowners, backed by Japanese private financiers, Korean financiers and shipbuilders, are scaling up this fleet without sufficient safeguards.
The time to act is now:
🔹Include LNG shipping across the full project lifecycle in environmental impact assessments, in line with OECD and international standards
🔹Assess cumulative impacts along LNG shipping routes, including ports, marine protected areas, and coastal communities
🔹Strengthen protections in biodiversity hotspots through routing measures, speed limits, and exclusion zones
🔹Require financiers to integrate marine biodiversity risks into due diligence and investment decisions
🪸 🐠 The Coral Triangle holds 76% of the world’s coral species and supports millions of lives. What we cannot see is still being impacted.
Protecting the Coral Triangle means acting across the entire LNG value chain.
🔗 Read SFOC’s blog on the industry players behind LNGC expansion:
forourclimate.org/insights/1…
🔗 Explore SFOC's report on LNG carrier impacts:
forourclimate.org/research/6…
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