Ocean Cities Network (OC-NET)

Ocean Cities Network (OC-NET)

Ocean Cities Network (OC-NET) 1920 1272 Ocean Decade

Lead institution:

Mediterranean Center for Marine and Environmental Research (CMIMA-CSIC), Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Unitat de Tecnologia Marina (UTM-CSIC) – Spain

Ocean Cities (OC-NET) is a network of marine cities committed with sustainability, permeability and regeneration of natural marine environments, for and with its population.

OC-NET is an interdisciplinary and bottom-up transformative program, which will change how coastal cities and their inhabitants perceive, interact and evolve with the ocean, from the surrounding waters to the single global ocean.

Cities concentrate most of the world’s population. Thus, they have a major impact on land-ocean ecosystems and climate and are among the least resilient environments. OC-NET combines scientific knowledge, research synergies, and social awareness to effectively impact the city’s evolution and the ocean’s sustainability.

Starting on June 8, 2021, and initially running for 5 years (07/06/2025), with 2 years of implementation plus 3 years of operation. OC-NET will naturally scale up in time as a result of its own process of reflection and action, so that it may eventually extend for the entire decade.

Start Date: 08/06/2021
End Date: 07/06/2025

This Programme hosts the following Ocean Decade Projects:

Coastal Zones Under Intensifying Human Activities and Changing Climate: A Regional Programme Integrating Science, Management and Society to Support Ocean Sustainability

Urbanized coastal sustainability under GCC scenario

Lead Contact: Vanessa Sarah Salvo (vsalvo@icm.csic.es)

challenges:
1- Understand and beat marine pollution
2- Protect and restore ecosystems and biodiversity
4 - Develop a sustainable and equitable ocean economy
5 - Unlock ocean-based solutions to climate change
7 - Expand the Global Ocean Observing System
9 - Skills, knowledge and technology for all
10 - Change humanity’s relationship with the ocean
ocean_basins:
Indian Ocean
North Atlantic Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
South Atlantic Ocean
South Pacific Ocean
type_of_action:
Programme
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