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The Ocean Decade: a true ecosystem modeling challenge
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-20, 21:43 authored by Heymans, JJ, Bundy, A, Christensen, V, Coll, M, de Mutsert, K, Elizabeth FultonElizabeth Fulton, Piroddi, C, Shin, Y-J, Steenbeek, J, Travers-Trolet, MThe UN declared the 2021–2030 as the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade). The Ocean Decade's vision is to “develop scientific knowledge, build infrastructure and foster relationships for a sustainable and healthy ocean.” The Ocean Decade aims to achieve six societal outcomes: (1) A clean ocean, through identifying and removing sources of pollution; (2) A healthy and resilient ocean, with mapped and protected marine ecosystems; (3) A predicted ocean, enabling society to understand current and future ocean conditions; (4) A safe ocean, protecting people from ocean hazards; (5) A sustainably harvested ocean, providing food and resources for the blue economy; and (6) A transparent ocean, giving citizens equitable access to data, information and technologies. It also aims to provide concrete scientific support to coastal management, adaptation and restoration, marine spatial planning, marine protected areas, fisheries management, sustainable expansion of the blue economy, nationally determined contributions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), national ocean policies, development of national Research and Development (R&D), capacity development, and early warning systems.
History
Publication title
Frontiers in Marine ScienceVolume
7Issue
SEPTArticle number
554573Number
554573Pagination
1-5ISSN
2296-7745Department/School
Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesPublisher
Frontiers Research FoundationPlace of publication
SwitzerlandRights statement
Copyright 2020 Heymans, Bundy, Christensen, Coll, de Mutsert, Fulton, Piroddi, Shin, Steenbeek and Travers-Trolet. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).Repository Status
- Open