Research focus
The Sustainable Ocean Community currently focuses its efforts around the following four main themes and related goals:
- Ocean change: understand the impact of climate change on the ocean and resulting risks for humanity, investigate ocean-based solutions to climate change
(linked to UN ocean decade challenge 5) - Ocean health: understand and address marine anthropogenic impacts; protect and restore ecosystems and biodiversity
(linked to UN ocean decade challenges 1 and 2) - Ocean law and governance: understand and (re-)shape (inter-)national legal frameworks to contribute to the preservation of the marine environment and sustainable use of the ocean
- Ocean literacy and empathy: understand, restore and strengthen humanity’s relationship with the ocean through dedicated education and public engagement projects
(linked to UN ocean decade challenge 10)