Inception Workshop Minutes

The Inception Workshop minutes detail the launch and components of a GEF-funded project led by the World Resources Institute and the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy. The project focuses on four main pillars: the 'Blue Papers' science assessment, the 'Ocean Solutions that Benefit People, Nature and the Economy' report, knowledge management, and the development of 'Ocean Watch,' an open data platform for integrated ocean management.

• The project includes a series of 16 'Blue Papers' and 3 special reports designed as a 'demand driven science process' to provide a comprehensive assessment of ocean science and knowledge. These papers, produced by over 200 authors from 42 countries, were developed to identify 'opportunities for action by governments, businesses and civil society' and were translated into five languages.
• The report titled 'Ocean Solutions that Benefit People, Nature and the Economy' was compiled over 1.5 years by seven authors from five countries. It is intended to serve as a 'handbook' for advancing a sustainable ocean economy and consists of three chapters covering 'the urgency of today', 'the possibility of tomorrow', and 'a roadmap to a sustainable ocean economy'.
• Ocean Watch is an open data platform designed to help national government institutions integrate 'Integrated Ocean Management (IOM) into policy and planning'. In collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, it aims to integrate existing Resource Watch coral reef data to create 'Global Coral Reef Profile and Regional Dashboards' to better estimate reef value regarding ecosystem services.
• Workshop participants identified critical data needs for ocean management, including the integration of 'indigenous knowledge and voices', gender disaggregation, and 'ocean carbon data'. Key challenges noted include significant 'data gaps', the difficulty of integrating spatial and non-spatial data, and the need for data to be 'usable in GIS'.

APA

World Resources Institute (2020). Inception Workshop Minutes. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2021-04/Inception%20Workshop%20Notes-OCT20.pdf?VersionId=divWzSjuYHIQWUQw2E7b9hWqZ7tD32Vk

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Inception Workshop Minutes. 2020. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2021-04/Inception%20Workshop%20Notes-OCT20.pdf?VersionId=divWzSjuYHIQWUQw2E7b9hWqZ7tD32Vk.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitute2020inception, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Inception Workshop Minutes}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2020}, month = oct, url = {https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2021-04/Inception%20Workshop%20Notes-OCT20.pdf?VersionId=divWzSjuYHIQWUQw2E7b9hWqZ7tD32Vk}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }