The ocean is threatened by combined pressures such as climate change, overfishing, pollution and conflicts of use. The ocean urgently needs decisive, rapid and unified efforts to address its critical situation and maximise the solutions it offers. This is a major challenge for the world community at the Third United Nations Conference on the Oceans (UNOC3), to be held in Nice from 9 at 13 June 2025. The aim is to stimulate action and implement SDG 14, which is the least funded of all the Sustainable Development Goals. A special UNOC3 event dedicated to science
CNRS and IFREMER have been commissioned to organise the One Ocean Science Congress (OOSC), a special UNOC3 event dedicated to science, and to provide Heads of State and Government, as well as society at large, with comprehensive scientific information on the health of the ocean and its future trajectory. Science-based decisions should enable the conservation and sustainable use of the ocean, optimise the solutions it offers and safeguard the services and benefits it provides to humanity.
The congress will feature a combination of plenary sessions, including keynote and opening addresses, as well as parallel oral and poster presentations. In order to strengthen the interactions between science and society, action and policy, and to involve civil society more broadly, townhalls such as panels and round tables will also be organised.
Deadline for submission of abstracts : Thursday 14 November 2024
