The IOI Ocean Academy global programme has been endorsed by the IOC Executive Secretary as a Decade Action “No 65.6. IOI Ocean Academy - Ocean Knowledge for All” as a project forming part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030, attached to the Decade programme No. UN7 Ocean Literacy With All (OLWA). The engagement and commitment and excellent work of the IOI Ocean Academy Directors has been the foundation upon which the IOI Ocean Academy Ocean Literacy outreach programme and the endorsement relies. Ocean Decade Actions are initiatives carried out across the globe over the course of the Decade to achieve “the science we need for the ocean we want” - the Ocean Decade Mission. Actions will contribute to fulfilling the 10 Ocean Decade Challenges, which articulate the most immediate priorities for the Ocean Decade. The IOI Ocean Academy addresses principally the Ocean Decade Challenges 9 (Skills, knowledge and technology for all) and 10 (Change humanity’s relationship with the ocean).
The #OceanDecade endorses 16 projects actions to increase ocean resilience and awareness worldwide! 🔹 The Decade Programme Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions, led by Ocean Visions will host 10 new Projects to scale up solutions around the ocean-climate nexus. These initiatives focus on the restoration of marine ecosystems and biodiversity, climate remediation, carbon dioxide removal technologies, and digital coastal ecosystems. Based on multidisciplinary collaboration and co-design, these Projects will be implemented in coastal areas, including in Africa and Caribbean Small Island Developing States. 🔹 Under the umbrella of the Ocean Literacy With All Programme, led by UNESCO Ocean, six Projects will accelerate a fundamental shift in the way our ocean is valued, understood, and managed. These initiatives will build an ocean literate society through formal and informal educational and awareness-raising tools, including gameplay and immersive 3D imagery. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ejgb9xmR