GEMS-Ocean

Vision
A global environment monitoring system that provides relevant open and easily accessible ocean and coastal data, analysis, and information, guiding actions to protect and sustainably use marine and coastal resources.

Mission
Co-design and convene a global Community of Practice across experts and society at large to provide capacity, analysis, innovation, and synthesized information to decision and policymakers, civil society, international organizations as well as coastal communities worldwide in a holistic approach to keep the global ocean and coasts healthy and productive.

The Global Environment Monitoring Services for the Ocean and Coasts (GEMS Ocean) Programme is a transdisciplinary partnership convened by UNEP. In order to give its member states and other regional bodies with data and information that is appropriate for managing, restoring, and conserving coastal and marine ecosystems. It focuses on integrating global observation systems. GEMS Ocean is officially recognized as an official 
programme of the UN Ocean Decade by the UN Ocean Decade secretariat and officially endorsed the Global Environment Monitoring System for the Ocean and Coasts (GEMS Ocean) Programme in September 2022.

In order to support the objectives of the UN Ocean Decade, GEMS Ocean seeks to bring together experts and stakeholders in order to provide useful information for policymaking, with a focus on marine spatial planning, ocean forecasting, and the sustainable blue economy. Additionally, it capitalises on the World Environment Situation Room (WESR) platform and other pertinent partner portals to filter current data on marine and coastal resources in accordance with UNEP's Medium-Term Strategy (MTS) 
2022–2025, which addresses pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss. This facilitates the display of data, models, and analytics in a way that is easy to comprehend.

GEMS Ocean Programme a transdisciplinary partnership which convenes a global Community of Practice across experts and society at large supporting to create OceanPrediction DCC community, specially reaching a community beyond GOOS (science background) and on the set-up of the Forum and the Atlas. Highlighting the importance of Forecasting Services and connection with observing systems. This aligns with the overall 
goal of Challenge 7 of expanding the Global Ocean Observing System.