Understanding the State of the Ocean

Monitoring is key to understanding how the state of the ocean is changing, what is causing the change and how well efforts to address these changes are working. The global oceans manual provides guidance on how to bring together traditional monitoring techniques with new technologies and data science in order to better monitor our oceans in the context of the SDGs. The aim of the GPML Digital platform is to facilitate coordination of multi-stakeholder action towards the long-term elimination, through a life-cycle approach, of discharges of litter and microplastics into the oceans using AI capabilities, data mapping and layered functionalities including match-making.