IOC established
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In Memoriam: David Thomas Pugh, the scientist and IOC-UNESCO Chair who took the ocean community forward
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Dialogues with Industry: How can industry, science and government together advance ocean observing for 2030?
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UNESCO joins The Economist and the Nippon Foundation at new Advisory Board of Back to Blue Initiative
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In Barbados, UNESCO renews focus on capacity building to prepare Caribbean communities for tsunamis and other coastal hazards
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GOOS BioEco Portal: the place to go for information on ocean biological and ecosystem observations
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Seabed 2030 announces increase in ocean data equating to the size of Europe and major new partnership at UN Ocean Conference
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
(IOC-UNESCO)
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) is the United Nations body responsible for supporting global ocean science and services. The IOC enables its 150 Member States to work together to protect the health of our shared ocean by coordinating programmes in areas such as ocean observations, tsunami warnings and marine spatial planning. Since it was established in 1960, the IOC has provided a focus for all other United Nations bodies that are working to understand and improve the management of our oceans, coasts and marine ecosystems. Today, the IOC is supporting all its Member States to build their scientific and institutional capacity in order to achieve the global goals including the UN Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction.
Our Work
For 60 years the IOC has worked behind the scenes to enable its Member States to work together to strengthen our knowledge and management of the ocean for the benefit of humanity.
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1960
150
IOC Member States
$3 Trillion
The projected value of ocean economy by 2030
>20%
The area of the seabed that has been mapped
Latest News
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Tsunami Ready: Three Villages on route to receiving UNESCO recognition in Java16 September 2022 |
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UNESCO joins The Economist and the Nippon Foundation at new Advisory Board of Back to Blue Initiative13 September 2022 |
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First meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board of the environmental DNA initiative12 September 2022 |
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Innovative eDNA initiative at UN Ocean Conference12 September 2022 |
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Pilot eDNA sampling campaign in Corsica12 September 2022 |
The United Nations has proclaimed a Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) to support efforts to reverse the cycle of decline in ocean health and gather ocean stakeholders worldwide behind a common framework that will ensure ocean science can fully support countries in creating improved conditions for sustainable development of the Ocean.