IOC General Assembly – Ocean Science Day

Thursday 22 June 2023

Location: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France

Plymouth Marine Laboratory is taking part in the 32^nd session of the Assembly of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO – Ocean Science Day, 22nd June, at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

This Ocean Science Day will see our Professor Steve Widdicombe taking part as a panelist in the Ocean Decade Session – part 1: “Shaping our future ocean – the IOC contribution to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development”, from 10am to 12pm CEST. During the session Steve will focus on the UN Ocean Decade endorsed programme “Ocean Acidification Research for Sustainability’ (OARS, http://goa-on.org/oars/overview.php) which he co-leads, including with IOC UNESCO, and which was amongst the first Decade programmes to be endorsed in 2021. OARS aims to provide society with the observational and scientific evidence needed to sustainably identify, monitor, mitigate and adapt to ocean acidification; from local to global scales.

The IOC Assembly meets once per biennium, is composed of 150 Member States and establishes IOC-UNESCO’s general policy and main lines of work.

Join the livestream using the link below – Please note: the link will be become active on June 22
https://webcast.unesco.org/events/2023-06-OCDY/

To find out more about the 32nd session of the Assembly or the Ocean Science Day visit: https://oceanexpert.org/event/3837#overview