Multiple ocean-related scientific organizations decide to team together to address global issues, requiring cooperation and coordination, such as:
* Better impacting with evidence-based scientific information global policy negotiations
* Ensuring an integrated voice of scientific disciplines in support of IPOS
* Joining forces and expertise to develop a global socio-ecological digital avatar of the ocean
* Fostering synergies in scaling-up funding of research across countries
Antoine Petit, Professor, CNRS
Dr. Kilaparti Ramakrishna, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Fernando Menezes, Professor, FAPESP
Martin Visbeck, Professor, GEOMAR
Minna Epps, IUCN
Dr. Arnaud Lalo, CNRS
