SOS Oceano
No green,
no blue

No ocean. No forests.
No green without blue.

The ocean sustains life, yet in Brazil’s climate conversation, forests are mentioned 689% more than the ocean. With COP30 approaching, what was left out of the conversation risked being left out of climate priorities too.

 
 
 
 
 
 

No Blue, No Green was born to turn this invisibility into a visual statement. In nature, green depends on blue. The same is true in color. So we stripped both from Brazil’s most powerful symbol: its national flag.

 
 

COP30

In 2025, Brazil hosted COP30, the world’s biggest UN climate event. Once again, the ocean was missing from the agenda.

So SOS Oceano, a coalition of NGOs, brought the issue to the surface by reimagining Brazil’s most powerful symbol.

 

A symbol becames a movement

The altered flag spread across culture, embraced by Indigenous leaders, civil society, pop icons and activists.

 

Albardão

After more than two decades of advocacy, the Albardão Marine National Park was finally created.

President Lula signed the decree establishing the National Park and Environmental Protection Area of Albardão in Rio Grande do Sul.

 

Albardão was just the beggining.  

We mapped Brazil’s most vulnerable biomes and transformed them into sustainable prints, expanding the conversation to other ecosystems in urgent need of protection.

 

Educational exhibition

The work also became an educational exhibition, using art and design to make the connection between ocean and land visible to a broader audience.