Publications

Outlining a pathway to integrate ocean-connected learning and social practices, supporting curriculum developers and the broader education community to foster a more sustainable relationship between humanity and the ocean.

A guiding framework born of our collective aspiration to place the ocean at the heart of global sustainability efforts, both within the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and beyond.

How to engage society to regenerate the most valuable ecosystem on our Planet

This toolkit advances Ocean Literacy and Sustainable Development Goals in the Atlantic Region, providing teachers with tools, supporting curriculum inclusion, and reviewing successful initiatives.

The Vision 2030 process aims to achieve a common and tangible measure of success for each of the 10 Ocean Decade Challenges by 2030. This White Paper outlines those measures for Challenge 10.

The State of the Ocean Report aims to inform policy-makers about the state of the ocean and to stimulate research and policy actions towards ‘the ocean we need for the future we want’.

An analysis of best-practice cases of private sector involvement in advancing ocean literacy programmes, ocean research, and marine conservation and regeneration projects around the world.

This report marks an important moment for the concept of Ocean Literacy, as the focus of the global community shifts from making space for the ocean in formal education, towards developing critically informed, context-specific initiatives for ocean-literate societies.

The Ocean&Climate Village is the first travelling exhibition developed by the IOC Project Office at the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe: a place to reconnect with the ocean.

This framework offers ways of improving ocean literacy, as well as inviting global ocean literacy experts and practitioners to formulate actions targeting the different priority areas of the Ocean Decade.

Fostering ocean-related education and the culture of conservation, restoration and sustainable use of our Blue Planet.

This toolkit offers educators and learners worldwide innovative resources to understand complex ocean processes and urgent issues. It presents scientific principles, highlighting the cause-effect relationship between human behavior and threats to ocean health.