Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions (GEOS)

  • What it is

    A programme to generate innovative solutions to address climate change

  • Who it’s for

    Researchers, engineers, innovators, investors and decisionmakers.

  • What it’s for

    Source, create, and catalyze solutions to critical ocean challenges

The Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions (GEOS) is an Ocean Visions Program endorsed by the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The Program brings together a multisector global community to source, create, and catalyze solutions to critical ocean challenges that require collaboration across environmental, social, finance, industry, and policy stakeholder groups.

GEOS brings diverse sectors and interest together to support the development, testing, and deployment of equitable, durable, and scalable solutions for complex challenges at the ocean-climate nexus. The GEOS ecosystem works through three building blocks:

  • The GEOS Network brings together global partners representing a multisector community of researchers, engineers, innovators, investors and decisionmakers.
  • GEOS Initiatives engage the Ocean Decade’s Community of Practice and the GEOS Network in the co-design of projects, programs and solution road maps that identify critical research and innovation needs and articulate a shared vision and agenda to advance solutions.
  • The GEOS Innovation Hub uses the road maps as blueprints to catalyze action for co-creating new Decade Actions and activating the research, startup, industry, and civil society innovation ecosystem to prototype and deploy those solutions for system-level impacts.

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