The OARS White Papers in this Technical Report "Ocean Acidification Research for Sustainability - A Community Vision for the Ocean Decade" outline in seven Outcome Chapters the OARS UN Ocean Decade programme, highlighting the key outputs and products, describing the research and outreach activities and identifying the key inputs and partners necessary to successfully implement each Outcome.
Outcome Manuscripts for Community Review (February 2023)
OARS Outcome working groups prepared the manuscripts below for community review, which commenced in February 2023. The reviewed and revised manuscripts have been collated into the technical report "Ocean Acidification Research for Sustainability - A Community Vision for the Ocean Decade"
Outcome 1: Quality Data
Enable the scientific community to provide ocean acidification data and evidence of known quality via capacity development, mentoring of early career researchers, facilitating data sharing, growing regional collaborations, and increased communication through meetings and workshops, allowing for a holistic analysis considering all stakeholder perspectives.
Outcome 2: Science to Action
Identify data and evidence needs for mitigation and adaptation strategies, from local to global, by 2022. Communicate these needs to the scientific and science policy community to ensure that science is prioritized.
Outcome 3: Observing Strategies
Co-design and implement observation strategies in collaboration with data/information producers and end-users by 2025. Identify factors limiting collection of data and implementation of solutions and collaborate with OARS outcome 1 activities to ameliorate and amend the identified issues. Proactively design and implement observation strategies to ensure vulnerable areas are adequately monitored. Provide ocean acidification baseline information for newly developed carbon removal strategies.
Outcome 4: Biological Impacts
Increase understanding of ocean acidification impacts to protect marine life by 2030. Implement biological observation within ocean acidification monitoring, providing the possibility to improve predictions of vulnerability and resilience to ocean acidification at all temporal and spatial scales.
Outcome 5: Future Projections
Provide appropriate data and information necessary to the development of societally relevant predictions and projections, employing new technologies such as digital twins, for all ocean 'users' of the impacts of ocean acidification to implement adaptation and mitigation by 2030.
Outcome 6: Public Awareness
Increase public awareness of ocean acidification, its sources, and impacts, achieved via ocean literacy and public outreach.
Outcome 7: Policy Engagement
Develop strategies and solutions to enable countries and regions to include measures to reduce ocean acidification in their respective policy and legislation.
