G7 Future of Seas and Ocean Initiative

G7 FSOI releases its priority topics for 2025

G7 FSOI WG Meeting 2024

The G7 FSOI working group has released their priority topics for cooperation in 2025. The meeting, held at the National Research Council in Rome, Italy from 29-31 October, reviewed 2024 priority topics and agreed to focus 2025 efforts to strengthen national actions and international cooperation for:

  • Augmented observing and forecasting for marine life
  • Arctic Ocean observing
  • Digital twins of the Ocean capacity
  • Global Ocean monitoring indicators
  • Governance, coordination, and sustained funding for the observing system
  • Ocean carbon
  • OneArgo
  • Marine research infrastructures integration and harmonization
  • Support for the World Ocean Assessment.

The co-chairs of the initiative for 2025 are Canada, which holds the current G7 presidency, and France, which will hold the G7 presidency in 2026.

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