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INNOVATIONS

UNESCO
The Ocean Decade under

the banner of innovation

After the One Ocean Summit in Brest, Monaco Ocean Week has established itself

a landmark event for the United Nations 2022 calendar in the Ocean Decade’s
launch phase.

For this event, a steppingstone towards the objec- Open-mindedness of the scientific community, diver-
tive of the United Nations Ocean Conference which sity of players able to contribute to data collection,
will take place in Lisbon in June 2022, the Intergo- types of technology used… The speakers repre-
vernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO sented various facets of the innovation.
set up an innovative panel of speakers from various
sectors including industry, research, finance and phi- A young coordinator for the Citizens of Surf organi-
lanthropy, with the focus on co-designing ocean solu- sation, also endorsed by the Ocean Decade, Natalie
tions. On Tuesday 22 March, under the chair of Julian Fox focused her innovation on the integration of local
Barbière, Global Coordinator for this United Nations communities and young researchers and professio-
programme, several representatives were invited nals in the dynamics of civic science. Also, in view
to the Monaco Yacht Club to present their innova- of improving the well-being and economy of local
tion process and the benefits of such actions for the communities, Chief Scientist Climate & Oceans at the
ocean. Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Richard Bel-
lerby, spoke of successful collaborations with govern-
ments and local authorities in Norway and the United
INNOVATION OF ALL KINDS States, explaining the way in which data on ocean
acidification were used to improve the management
Jamie McMichael-Phillips, Director of The Nippon of aquaculture and seafood production in these re-
Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, sum- gions.
marised the scope of the ten-year seabed mapping
programme which he runs, and which generates key
information for anticipating ocean-related hazards,
among other things. Working for Odyssey, a global
ocean observation project, Mathieu Belbeoch, Direc-
tor of the Centre Ocean OPS, shared his ambition
to involve a wide community of professional sailors,
commercial ships and other sea users in the data col-
lection phase which will complement the collection
carried out by States.