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Sailing for World Oceans Day 2022

Paris - June 8, 2022 - June 13, 2022

Improving tsunami readiness around the South China Sea

The South China Sea region and its neighbouring basins including the Sulu and Celebes seas comprise one of the worlds most vulnerable areas to earthquakes and tsunamis owing to seismic activity in the Manila Cotabato and Negros and Sulawesi trenches

January 13, 2022

A Brave New Ocean: Building back better through ocean knowledge

February 9, 2021

Towards The Generation Ocean, united to create the ocean we need for the future we want

Nutrition oxygen energy work health everything that allows us to live is linked to the ocean To promote greater knowledge conservation and sustainable use of the ocean and its resources the United Nations declared 20212030 Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development The Decade aims to mobilise the scientific community policymakers business and civil society around a collaborative research and technological innovation programme It will enable the coordination of research programmes observation systems capacity building maritime spatial planning and marine risk reduction to improve the management of ocean and coastal zone resources The Decade of Ocean Sciences should accelerate the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 SDG14 for the conservation and sustainable use of the ocean seas and marine resources

October 21, 2020

Ocean Literacy for All. Launch of the toolkit in Italy

Ocean Literacy for All A toolkit the twovolume manual was jointly produced in 2017 by UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission IOC of UNESCO as a result of joint work and contributions by members of the global partnership led by IOC The toolkit was officially launched in Italy on 22 September 2020 by the Italian Ministry of the Environment Land and Sea the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe and the Italian National Commission for UNESCO

October 14, 2020

Released Ocean Literacy for All Toolkit in Italian on World Oceans Day

The ocean is a source of food energy raw materials minerals and more and more frequently innovative drugs And not only does it regulate the earth climate but it also hosts the greatest diversity of living beings and ecosystems while providing economic social and aesthetic services to all humanity Knowing and understanding the influence of the ocean on us and our influence on the ocean becomes hence fundamental for living and acting in a sustainable way This is the essence of Ocean Literacy

COVID-19: the ocean, an ally against the virus

When we think of public health risks we may not think of the ocean as a factor Increasingly however the health of the ocean is intimately tied to our health Some may be surprised to read that organisms discovered at extreme depths are used to speed up the detection of COVID19 and probably even more to learn that it is the environment to could give a solution to humankind

Ocean Literacy for All, a manual for change in a changing blue planet

December 1, 2017

Global ocean science education: how we can work together to face the challenges of our oceans

Cinema stars partner up with UNESCO to raise public awareness around ocean protection

October 10, 2016

Assessing ecosystem services in the Mediterranean Large Marine Ecosystem

Inauguration of the operational centre for ocean observation in Brest