A Roadmap for Using the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development in Support of Science, Policy, and Action

  • Joachim Claudet
  • , Laurent Bopp
  • , William W.L. Cheung
  • , Rodolphe Devillers
  • , Elva Escobar-Briones
  • , Peter Haugan
  • , Johanna J. Heymans
  • , Valérie Masson-Delmotte
  • , Nele Matz-Lück
  • , Patricia Miloslavich
  • , Lauren Mullineaux
  • , Martin Visbeck
  • , Robert Watson
  • , Anna Milena Zivian
  • , Isabelle Ansorge
  • , Moacyr Araujo
  • , Salvatore Aricò
  • , Denis Bailly
  • , Julian Barbière
  • , Cyrille Barnerias
  • Chris Bowler, Victor Brun, Anny Cazenave, Cameron Diver, Agathe Euzen, Amadou Thierno Gaye, Nathalie Hilmi, Frédéric Ménard, Cyril Moulin, Norma Patricia Muñoz, Rémi Parmentier, Antoine Pebayle, Hans Otto Pörtner, Silva Osvaldina, Patricia Ricard, Ricardo Serrão Santos, Marie Alexandrine Sicre, Stéphanie Thiébault, Torsten Thiele, Romain Troublé, Alexander Turra, Jacqueline Uku, Françoise Gaill

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Abstract

The health of the ocean, central to human well-being, has now reached a critical point. Most fish stocks are overexploited, climate change and increased dissolved carbon dioxide are changing ocean chemistry and disrupting species throughout food webs, and the fundamental capacity of the ocean to regulate the climate has been altered. However, key technical, organizational, and conceptual scientific barriers have prevented the identification of policy levers for sustainability and transformative action. Here, we recommend key strategies to address these challenges, including (1) stronger integration of sciences and (2) ocean-observing systems, (3) improved science-policy interfaces, (4) new partnerships supported by (5) a new ocean-climate finance system, and (6) improved ocean literacy and education to modify social norms and behaviors. Adopting these strategies could help establish ocean science as a key foundation of broader sustainability transformations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)34-42
Number of pages9
JournalOne Earth
Volume2
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Jan 2020

Keywords

  • United Nations
  • human well-being
  • ocean health
  • policy levers
  • strategy
  • sustainability
  • transformative actions

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