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From 21 to 23 November 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO) hold the 5th International Forum for Marine/Maritime Spatial planning (MSPforum) and the 3rd International Conference on MSP in Barcelona, Spain.

The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO) announced that Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), a private-sector company specialising in the manufacture and installation of trans-oceanic telecommunications cables, has joined the Corporate Data Group of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the first company to do so.

UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO) and its Portuguese Committee, the Government of Portugal and the international not-for-profit EurOcean Foundation are inviting early career ocean professionals (ECOPs) to apply to the newly launched Mario Ruivo Memorial Lecture Series.

UNESCO and the European Commission gathered 70 tsunami early warning and preparedness experts in Ispra, Italy, to discuss the requirements, challenges and opportunities of effective local tsunami warning in the context of multi-hazard disaster risk mitigation.

Day and night, a group of scientists are gliding through a special route across the Mediterranean Sea, stopping every 25 nautical miles to measure important parameters, from the surface to the 3 km deep bottom.

18 Pacific Countries and Territories conducted a 2-hour live regional table top exercise (PacWave22-PICT) to test new early warning procedures for a potential tsunami arising from volcanic activity in the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha’apai (HTHH) Volcano. The Exercise was the first-ever fully dedicated to Pacific Island Countries and Territories.

On Friday, November 11th 2022 International Non-profit Oceanic Global will host The Ocean x Climate Summit, a first-of-its-kind event designed to place the ocean center stage in the global climate agenda.

Pavilion bringing world leaders in ocean science, engineering, and policy together to highlight ocean’s enormous role in climate.

The Virtual Ocean Pavilion of the UN Climate Conference (COP27) will kick off its program of events during the first week of the Summit this November in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.