Global Ocean Oxygen Decade (GOOD)

  • What it is

    A programme led by the Global Ocean Oxygen Network of IOC-UNESCO

  • Who it’s for

    Researchers, general public

  • What it’s for

    Raise global awareness about ocean deoxygenation

Oxygen dissolved in seawater supports the largest ecosystems on the planet. It is alarming that the ocean is losing oxygen, termed ocean deoxygenation, at a rapid rate, primarily due to global warming by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and pollution from nutrients and organic wastes particularly in coastal waters. The Global Ocean Oxygen Decade (GOOD) will raise global awareness about ocean deoxygenation, provide knowledge for action and develop mitigation and adaptation strategies and solutions to ensure continued provision of ecosystem services, and minimize impacts on the ocean economy through local, regional, and global efforts, including transdisciplinary research, innovative outreach, and ocean education and literacy.

The programme will focus on eight objectives:

  1. Deoxygenation and ocean life
  2. Deoxygenation, water quality and the climate system
  3. Deoxygenation and ecosystem services
  4. Deoxygenation and co-stressors
  5. Economic and societal consequences of deoxygenation
  6. Deoxygenation
  7. Mapping and modelling oxygen
  8. Capacity building and ocean literacy

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