Corporate author: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

Year of publication: 2022

Type of document: Information Document 

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The Climate COP27 summit will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh and bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The One Ocean Summit took place in Brest in Brittany in the northwest of France on 9-11 February 2022, mobilising the international community to take tangible action towards preserving and supporting a healthy and sustainable ocean.

In the context of the 2022 Our Ocean Conference, taking place in Palau on 13-14 April, UNESCO announced a commitment to leverage partnerships and resources to develop scientific solutions and enhance institutional capacities in the Pacific to improve sustainable ocean management.

Significant gaps remain in our knowledge of marine life, from coral reefs to the deep sea bottom. But now nations have a new opportunity to work together in filling them in, for the benefit of humanity.