We are excited to share that the United Nations Ocean Decade Vision 2030 White Papers have been officially published.
Structured around the 10 Ocean Decade Challenges, the Vision 2030 process aimed to set a tailored and specific strategic ambition, and associated milestones, for each of the Challenges, ensuring their road to success by 2030. A key outcome of the Vision 2030 process, the 10 White papers represent a collaborative effort to develop the science we need for the ocean we want.
Over the past year, a team of 20 co-chairs and more than 150 experts have diligently worked to assess user needs, prioritize key datasets, and identify gaps in scientific knowledge. The comprehensive documents were reviewed by the global community and recently presented at the Ocean Decade Conference held in Barcelona in April 2024. This event provided a unique platform for stakeholders to engage, share insights, and collaboratively advance the implementation of these crucial papers.
The MBON, Marine Life 2030, and several others have long focused on building a global community to address Challenge 2 “Protect and Restore Ecosystems and Biodiversity” of the Ocean Decade. The strategic ambition outlined in the Vision 2030 white paper about Challenge 2 is “to enable ecosystem-based management approaches using timely and accurate information to promote sustainable development. This includes, but is not limited to, the effective conservation and restoration of ecosystems and biodiversity.”
We are grateful to Challenge 2 White Paper co-chairs, Frank Muller-Karger and Aileen Tan, for their hard work, and expertise in this process and for leading the Working Group authoring this document. We welcome the science, private, education, and government sectors to enable the Vision 2030 strategic ambition. MBON and Marine Life 2030 offer a network to help advance this dialogue.
Please find below the link to the White papers:
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/search/256b16e8-a413-4f1b-a26a-6f0d7f5f2c69