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Title: Marine Life 2030: building global knowledge of marine life for local action in the Ocean Decade
Abstract Marine Life 2030 is a programme endorsed by the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (the Ocean Decade) to establish a globally coordinated system that delivers knowledge of ocean life to those who need it, promoting human well-being, sustainable development, and ocean conservation. It is an open network to unite existing and new programmes into a co-designed, global framework to share information on methods, standards, observations, and applications. Goals include realizing interoperable information and transforming the observation and forecasting of marine life for the benefit of all people. Co-design, sharing local capacity, and coordination between users of ocean resources across regions is fundamental to enable sustainable use and conservation. A novel, bottom-up networking structure is now engaging members of the ocean community to address local issues, with Marine Life 2030 facilitating the linkage between groups across different regions to meet the challenges of the Ocean Decade. A variety of metrics, including those proposed by the Group on Earth Observations, will be used to track the success of the co-design process.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1728913
PAR ID:
10416942
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Blasiak, Robert
Date Published:
Journal Name:
ICES Journal of Marine Science
Volume:
80
Issue:
2
ISSN:
1054-3139
Page Range / eLocation ID:
355 to 357
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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