The UN decade of ocean science for sustainable development
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Our civilization needs a clean, resilient, productive, safe, well-observed, documented
and predicted ocean. “The ocean we need for the future we want” was the motto of
the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission proposal to the United Nations to
consider the merit of an Ocean Science Decade. By proclaiming the Decade, the UN
General Assembly offered the oceanographic community a unique, once in a life-time,
opportunity to change the way we do things, make oceanography fit for purpose of
effectively supporting sustainable development, and energize the ocean sciences for
future generations. The Decade is the chance to put in place a more complete and
sustainable observing system and feed the resulting data into a science-based informed
decision-making system allowing increased reliance of our civilization on the ocean,
its ecosystem services and, at the same time, preserving ocean health. Strong and
proactive engagement of the oceanographic community in the design of the Decade
and its observing component and subsequent energetic implementation of the ideas are
sought. Participants in OceanObs’19 are invited to consider the additional possibilities
and requirements associated with the Decade in their contributions to and brainstorming
at the Conference. It is essential to use collective wisdom of OceanObs’19 to help
developing an ambitious and also realistic implementation plan for the Decade, with a
strong observational component.
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Ryabinin, Barbière, Haugan PM, Kullenberg, Smith N, McLean, Troisi A, Fischer, Aricò, Aarup, Pissierssens, Visbeck M, Enevoldsen H, Rigaud. The UN decade of ocean science for sustainable development. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2019;6:470Publisher
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Copyright 2019 Ryabinin, Barbière, Haugan, Kullenberg, Smith, McLean, Troisi, Fischer, Aricò, Aarup, Pissierssens, Visbeck, Enevoldsen and Rigaud.