Towards IPOS: Consultation Report

The Consultation Report shows the process that went into designing the IPOS, its governance and its ways of answering requests.

Consultation report, February 2025

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The IPOS Strategic Overview

The Strategic Overview details what the IPOS will be and represents an in-depth work of six months, conducted by experts and including diverse international consultations. It includes information regarding the need for a sustainable ocean, the IPOS governance and the different sets of actions it will offer to States who need its assistance.

Strategic Overview, January 2025

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Towards IPOS: Shaping Ocean-Knowledge-Policy interfaces

In August 2024, the Towards IPOS initiative and the Executive Secretary of PainelMar attended meetings with Brazilian authorities and co-organized a G20/O20 Ocean Dialogues event. The mission aimed to connect local ocean governance with global efforts, emphasizing transdisciplinary collaboration and showcasing case studies from Brazil and South Africa to highlight the importance of producing relevant, demand-driven knowledge for sustainable development.

Meeting report, August 2024

Shaping IPOS: Southern perspectives on optimising the science-policy interface

During the UN Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona in April, the Towards IPOS team was present and hosted a side-event, integrating insights from Global South experts and practitioners to discuss knowledge priorities and best practices for the science-policy interface.

Meeting report, April 2024

Towards IPOS: The Gateway between ocean knowledge and policy action

Towards IPOS hosted a side event during the Monaco Ocean Week in March, gathering high-level stakeholders to discuss the global ocean knowledge-decision interface.

Meeting report, March 2024

Bridging Shades of Blue: Co-constructing knowledge with the International Panel for Ocean Sustainability (IPOS)

A diverse group of Ocean knowledge holders, including policymakers, small-scale fishers, marine social scientists and ocean lawyers gathered to reflect on the key features, challenges, strategies, actors to be involved, as well as pathways to balance power for advancing an inclusive and equitable IPOS.

Taylor and Francis Online, August 2023

Seascape Assessment: Feasibility Study for the establishment of an Intergovernmental Panel for Ocean Sustainability (IPOS)

The Seascape Assessment report commissioned by DG MARE analyses organisations, both global and European, that provide information about the state of the ocean.

Publication office of the European Union, August 2023

An evolution towards scientific consensus for a sustainable
ocean future

This paper introduces the Towards IPOS initiative as a coordinating mechanism to integrate knowledge systems to forge a bridge across ocean science-policy divides collectively. The aim is to enrich the global policy debate in the Ocean Decade and support a shift toward ocean sustainability.

Nature Partner Journals Ocean Sustainability, December 2022