Over the next ten years, the international community must invest massively in ocean sciences to find innovative solutions to major global challenges. This is the objective, the very raison d’être of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030, which will begin on 1 January by proclaiming “The science we need for the ocean we want!”.
At the beginning of the third millennium, oceanography has the capacity to identify problems and offer solutions, provided we...