With support from the World Bank, the Tanzanian government created local beach management units to improve local fisheries management. The project’s goal was to stop detrimental fishing practices, such as using poison or dynamite, by increasing community involvement in surveillance and management of the fisheries. The local beach management unit members were not deputized or given legal powers, but identified suspects to enforcement agencies. According to local fishery managers, these efforts have reduced illegal fishing practices such as using poison and dynamite.

Bucuti and Tara Beach Resort is the Caribbean’s first and only certified carbon-neutral hotel. Located on the small island of Aruba, today, the property is pursuing carbon negative status. Since its inception, Bucuti and Tara Beach Resort (Bucuti & Tara) has had a high standard and placed the utmost importance on sustainability and care for the environment. This shows true until today; most notably within the resort’s extensive sustainability program which also entails waste management.

In 2018, Colombia formed the National Board for the Sustainable Management of Plastic, with government entities, private sector, academia, recyclers, NGOs and research institutions; within this context, the National Plan for the Sustainable Management of Single-Use Plastics, which included “lines of action per product” directed towards improving the environmental characteristics of plastic products, the rational use of plastics, the culture in commercial establishments.