UN Ocean Conference 2022 | Side Event | GEMS Ocean | Co-Designing the value chain from data to impact through a partnership approach

Name: UN Ocean Conference 2022 | Side Event | GEMS Ocean | Co-Designing the value chain from data to impact through a partnership approach
Start: 2022-07-01
End: 2022-07-01
Location: Portugal

1 July 2022

16:00 - 17:15, Altice Arena, Lisbon, Portugal

Overview

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Agenda

Ocean and Coastal Observation and Monitoring at scale: Co-Designing the value chain from data to impact through a partnership approach.

Monitoring our ocean and coasts to provide accessible and relevant data is a requirement for effective environmental management, policy setting and decision-making. Although there are numerous ocean observation systems and great progress is being made in harmonizing and standardizing knowledge, there is much more to be done to provide decision makers with the information they need to safeguard livelihoods and the environment.

Specifically, there is an urgent need to not only fill specific data gaps based on global, regional, national, and local demands, but do so in an integrative way that enables effective decision making. Only then we can take on challenges such as coastal erosion, sea-level rise, marine pollution, habitat degradation, and overfishing in a coherent and impactful way leading to improved conservation, management and sustainable use of ocean and coastal resources.

Event Co-organizers:

UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC)
Mercator Ocean International (MOi)
Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
G7 Future of the Seas and Ocean Initiative (FSOI)

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This event will act as a bridge or "missing link" connecting existing ocean and coastal observing and monitoring systems to each other and to end users and stakeholders to create a continuous feedback loop that addresses needs and supports the development of innovative solutions to the problems our ocean and coasts are facing. The event provides an opportunity to drive the co-design of innovative monitoring and actions that can leverage available data on the ground. The focus will be on obtaining inputs, recommendations, feedback, and active engagement from governments and Regional Seas, providing a space for the sharing of experiences and lessons learned, best practices, partnership models, funding opportunities, initiatives and emerging issues.

Stakeholders and participants are especially encouraged to provide feedback and actively participate in the co-design process of UNEP’s Global Environment Monitoring System for the Ocean and Coasts (GEMS Ocean) Programme. The Programme is being designed in a way to not duplicate existing ocean monitoring and observation efforts, but to play a critical role in linking them to specific needs and policy making. The Programme, through a demand-driven approach, focuses on providing the world community with relevant data and capacity for ocean and coastal management solutions that can accelerate action on the ground which can be scaled up regionally and globally.

Specific thematic and regional focus areas could be approached during the event, such as: land-sea interactions and the capacity challenges faced by Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Developing Countries in undertaking regular monitoring and preparing, updating, and taking action based on national and/or regional state of the marine environment reports.

For more information, please reach out to us on: unep-science-gemsocean@un.org

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