Brazil can design diverse and innovative projects on climate change, in different areas, with multiple stakeholders. Nevertheless, there is a lack of oceans-climaterelated projects in Brazil, despite significant marine territorial water and coastline.  

In addition, a quarter of the Brazilian population lives near oceans. Therefore, it's reasonable to assume there are opportunities for high-impact, high-quality oceanclimate projects not being designed in Brazil. The main reason identified for this situation is a gap between ocean stakeholders. The government doesn't have a specific oceans-climate framework for decisions. Scientists are siloed in their research institutions, apart from project designers from the government or NGOs who need the evidence provided by science to propose projects or programs. All are apart from the private sector and their potential role in bringing or participating in the solutions. 

This readiness proposal aims to change this situation by taking advantage of a newly created Science at Sea Program at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI). The objective is to foster a climate-ocean knowledge base among the Brazilian stakeholders and between academia and government, NGOs, and the private sector in pursuit of high-quality projects. The program will function as the initial strategic framework to identify and prioritize potential ocean-climate interventions/projects/programs for mitigation and adaptation in Brazil. The identification will follow robust evidence-based information and promote stakeholders' engagement from the beginning of the process. This will permit Brazil to start designing an overall ocean pipeline for climate action and specific projects for the GCF.