In June 2022, the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) (referred to as ‘Ocean Decade’) Collaborative Center on Ocean-Climate Nexus and Coordination amongst Decade Implementing Partners in P.R. China (DCC-OCC) was established under the endorsement of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. DCC-OCC is hosted by the First Institute of Oceanography under the guidance of the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) of China. It is one of the first five Decade Collaborative Centres (DCCs) all over the world, and the only one in China.

DCC-OCC endeavors to enhance understanding of the ocean-climate nexus and generate knowledge and solutions to help mitigate, adapt to and build resilience against climate change across all geographies and at various scales, by engaging stakeholders, developing partnerships, advocating best practices and sharing data and products.

DCC-OCC endeavors to enhance understanding of the ocean-climate nexus and generate knowledge and solutions to help mitigate, adapt to and build resilience against climate change across all geographies and at various scales, by engaging stakeholders, developing partnerships, advocating best practices and sharing data and products. With the endorsement of UNESCO-IOC, DCC-OCC has the following responsibilities.

1. Coordinate the Ocean Decade programmes.

2. Coordinate the Ocean Decade Implementation Partners.

3. Promote model best practices and public products.

4. Encourage stakeholder engagement.

5. Drive new Ocean Decade actions.

6. Conduct capacity building.

7. Facilitate communication and raise public awareness.

8. Resource mobilization.

9. Monitoring and reporting.

10. Provide support to the Ocean Decade National Committee of China.

Web link: DCC-OCC