The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2021 to 2030 as the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development – the "Ocean Decade". With the cancellation of the in-person sessions of the First International Ocean Decade Conference in consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic that were originally planned for May – June 2021, the start of the Ocean Decade will be celebrated with a series of re-structured virtual and hybrid events starting from June 2021 to mid-2022.
Read more about the High-Level Launch of the Ocean Decade and Ocean Decade Laboratories here.