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From page 54... ... To achieve resilience, climate mitigation and adaptation efforts are required, considering pace, scale, feasibility, and innovation while also addressing the potential environmental impacts and developing sustainable practices for implementation. Decade Challenges and Outcomes Addressed Ocean Solutions for Climate Resilience addresses several of the UN Ocean Decade challenges and outcomes including Challenge 5: "Unlock ocean-based solutions to climate change - Enhance understanding of the ocean-climate nexus and generate knowledge and solutions to mitigate, adapt and build resilience to the effects of climate change across all geographies and at all scales, and to improve services including predictions for the ocean, climate and weather"; Challenge 6: "Increase community resilience to ocean hazards - Enhance multi-hazard early warning services for all geophysical, ecological, biological, weather, climate and anthropogenic related ocean and coastal hazards, and mainstream community preparedness and resilience"; Outcome 2: "A healthy and resilient ocean where marine ecosystems are understood, protected, restored and managed"; Outcome 3: "A productive ocean supporting sustainable food supply and a sustainable ocean economy"; and Outcome 4: "A predicted ocean where society understands and can respond to changing ocean conditions" (UNESCO-IOC, 2021a) Read the entire page →
From page 55... ... : Ocean Storminess at the Western Boundary and Its Impacts on Shelf/Slope Environment and Ecosystems Measuring Global Mean Sea Level Changes With Surface Drifting Buoys A Global Network of Surface Platforms for the Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) Navigating the Ocean's Role in Carbon Dioxide Removal A Real-Time Global Rivers Observatory Super Sites for Advancing Understanding of the Oceanic and Atmospheric Boundary Layers Mining Five Centuries of Climate and Maritime Weather Data from Historic Records Why Paleoceanographic Observations are Needed to Improve Future Climate Projections OceanPredict.US A Sensor Network for Mixing at the Ocean's Bottom Boundary UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Actionsa Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions (GEOS) Read the entire page →
From page 56... ... CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UN OCEAN DECADE 2022a,b) and in the UN Ocean Decade Implementation Plan. Read the entire page →
From page 57... ... what you cannot observe, an important component is the completion and maintenance of a comprehensive observing system, along with formal synthesis frameworks in order to monitor, quantify, detect, understand, and predict human-induced system changes. This addresses information needs in other themes, in particular The Restored and Sustainable Ocean and The Ocean Revealed. Read the entire page →
From page 58... ... Topics could include technological progress and transferable technology at the global level; environmental trade-offs of renewable energy that are sus tainable and maintain a healthy ocean; and feasibility, export market, job creation, and environmental impact for suitable coastal zones around the world. • Development of the scientific basis, engineering solutions, and social economic impacts of coastal adaptation, including approaches to respond to sea level rise and coastal flooding. Read the entire page →
From page 59... ... . Coastal areas generally have high sensitivity to climate change including sea level rise and coastal flooding, rising water temperatures, acidification, and coastal storms. Read the entire page →
From page 60... ... Healthy Urban Seas will focus on the activities and changes in these constrained and highly populated regions, all of which are magnified by climate change. Careful design of experiments to capture and understand the impacts of human activities will yield information on mechanisms that could be employed for increasing the health and resilience of urban seas. Read the entire page →
From page 61... ... In particular, this theme addresses Challenge 2: "Protect and restore ecosystems and biodiversity - Understand the effects of multiple stressors on ocean ecosystems and develop solutions to monitor, protect, manage and restore ecosystems and their biodiversity under changing environmental, social and climate conditions"; Challenge 4: "Develop a sustainable and equitable ocean economy - Generate knowledge, support innovation and develop solutions for equitable and sustainable development of the ocean economy under changing environmental, social and climate conditions"; Challenge 5: "Unlock ocean-based solutions to climate change - Enhance understanding of the oceanclimate nexus and generate knowledge and solutions to mitigate, adapt and build resilience to the effects of climate change across all geographies and at all scales, and to improve services including predictions for the ocean, climate and weather"; Challenge 6: "Increase community resilience to ocean hazards - Enhance multi-hazard early warning services for all geophysical, ecological, biological, weather-, climate- and anthropogenic-related ocean and coastal hazards, and mainstream community preparedness and resilience"; Challenge 9: "Skills, knowledge and technology for all - Ensure comprehensive capacity development and equitable access to data, information, knowledge and technology across all aspects of ocean science and for all stakeholders"; and Challenge 10: "Change humanity's relationship with the ocean - Ensure that the multiple values and Read the entire page →
From page 62... ... Ocean Priorities This theme encompasses ideas from more than 10 Ocean-Shots and overlaps with several UN Ocean Decade–endorsed projects, programs, and contributions (see Table 2.6) Read the entire page →
From page 63... ... (Decade Project 43) An Ocean Corps for Ocean Science (Decade Programme 9) Read the entire page →
From page 64... ... • Equipping of ocean-going vessels coming in and out of our major seaports to collect data as part of a network of global ocean observation. Potential Next Steps A workshop to identify research opportunities that would benefit the health of urban seas and adjacent communities could be organized around topics or could focus on a specific urban port to highlight key issues such as the following: • Opportunities and approaches for engaging coastal urban populations in the co-development of research priorities; • Development and testing of new sensors and platforms (e.g., point pollu tion, repeat sampling drones) Read the entire page →
From page 65... ... • Development of a community culture that understands the importance of, and plays an active role in, ensuring a safe and healthy ocean through community engagement (ocean cultural literacy) Read the entire page →
From page 67... ... Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021–2030 (UN Ocean Decade) outcomes that call for a clean, healthy, resilient, productive, predicted, safe, accessible, and inspiring ocean in 2030 are consistent with the goals defined by many U.S. Read the entire page →
From page 68... ... Many of the submitted Ocean-Shots addressed new approaches to the conduct of science to make it more inclusive and equitable, including providing greater access to ocean data and information. In response, this consensus committee developed two foundational themes -- An Inclusive and Equitable Ocean and An Ocean of Data -- and four topical themes, which represent areas where the committee identified opportunities to augment and advance ocean studies that support sustainable development as described in the UN Ocean Decade Implementation Plan. Read the entire page →
From page 69... ... Contributions at the end of the UN Ocean Decade) to the Ocean Decade A clean ocean An Inclusive and Equitable Ocean A healthy and resilient ocean An Ocean of Data A productive ocean The Ocean Revealed A predicted ocean The Restored and Sustainable Ocean A safe ocean Ocean Solutions for Climate Resilience An accessible ocean Healthy Urban Seas An inspiring and engaging ocean SOURCE: UNESCO-IOC, 2021a. Read the entire page →
From page 70... ... For example, research groups from one theme could meet with another to address overlapping issues. The committee has recommended two foundational and four topical themes that have the potential, if further developed and funded, to openly engage a broad, inclusive community and greatly advance our understanding of the ocean -- its processes, resources, and values -- to enable "the ocean we need for the future we want." The UN Ocean Decade represents a global opportunity to advance ocean science and sustainable practices; it is also an opportunity for the United States to demonstrate international leadership in furthering efforts to ensure that the ocean continues to support the well-being of communities at home and worldwide, for both current and future generations. Read the entire page →
From page 71... ... 2019. Ocean Data Product Integration Through In novation -- the Next Level of Data Interoperability. Read the entire page →
From page 72... ... 2019. A Research Review of Interventions to Increase the Persistence and Resilience of Coral Reefs. Read the entire page →
From page 73... ... 2021. Toward a Global Public Reposi tory of Community Protocols to Encourage Best Practices in Biomolecular Ocean Observing and Research. Read the entire page →
From page 74... ... Implementation Plan. IOC Ocean Decade Series, 20. Read the entire page →
From page 75... ... Acronyms and Abbreviations AI artificial intelligence AMOC Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation CARE collective benefit, authority to control, responsibility, and ethics CDR carbon dioxide removal eDNA environmental deoxyribonucleic acid EU European Union FAIR findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission LDC Least Developed Country ML machine learning NAKFI National Academies Keck Futures Initiative NBS nature-based solution NSTC National Science and Technology Council SIDS Small Island Developing States SOST Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology UN United Nations UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 75 Read the entire page →

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... To achieve resilience, climate mitigation and adaptation efforts are required, considering pace, scale, feasibility, and innovation while also addressing the potential environmental impacts and developing sustainable practices for implementation. Decade Challenges and Outcomes Addressed Ocean Solutions for Climate Resilience addresses several of the UN Ocean Decade challenges and outcomes including Challenge 5: "Unlock ocean-based solutions to climate change - Enhance understanding of the ocean-climate nexus and generate knowledge and solutions to mitigate, adapt and build resilience to the effects of climate change across all geographies and at all scales, and to improve services including predictions for the ocean, climate and weather"; Challenge 6: "Increase community resilience to ocean hazards - Enhance multi-hazard early warning services for all geophysical, ecological, biological, weather, climate and anthropogenic related ocean and coastal hazards, and mainstream community preparedness and resilience"; Outcome 2: "A healthy and resilient ocean where marine ecosystems are understood, protected, restored and managed"; Outcome 3: "A productive ocean supporting sustainable food supply and a sustainable ocean economy"; and Outcome 4: "A predicted ocean where society understands and can respond to changing ocean conditions" (UNESCO-IOC, 2021a)