GO-BC
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Our Vision
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Connecting global blue carbon experts
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Deepening understanding of the ocean-climate relationship to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
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Acknowledging broader ecosystem roles to address climate responses while supporting both people and biodiversity.
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Producing innovative outcomes across estuarine, coastal, and open ocean environments
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Promoting nature-based Solutions
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Effectively communicating and delivering outputs to policymakers and communities.
Goals
GO-BC contributes to the UN's Global Decade Outcomes, Challenges and Key Sustainable Development Goals through:
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Research
GO-BC codesigns and implements new blue carbon research to promote Nature-based Solutions for better ocean sustainability. The GO-BC Science Technical Working group shapes and guides the direction of new and emerging blue carbon research.
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Capacity building
GO-BC coordinates capacity building in blue carbon science across the globe, to build and enhance technical science capacity.
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Collaboration
Collaboration is at the heart of GO-BC, enhancing global to regional collaborative efforts by facilitating communication between stakeholders at all levels. Regional hubs act as focal points for collaborations across the globe.
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Policy support
We communicate scientific outputs to policy makers and communities clearly and effectively, to ensure that new blue carbon science is being utilised to its fullest extent.
10 CHALLENGES
Ocean Decade Challenges for Collective Impact
Which Ocean Decade challenges will GO-BC address?
Challenge 2
Understand the effects of multiple stressors on ocean ecosystems, and develop solutions to monitor, protect, manage and restore ecosystems and their biodiversity under changing environmental, social and climate conditions.
Challenge 5
Enhance understanding of the ocean-climate nexus and generate knowledge and solutions to mitigate, adapt and build resilience to the effects of climate change across all geographies and at all scales and to improve services including predictions for the ocean, climate and weather.
Challenge 10
Ensure that the multiple values and services of the ocean for human wellbeing, culture and sustainable development are widely understood, and identify and overcome barriers to behaviour change required for a step change in humanity's relationship with the ocean.
