Bringing it all together for a healthy ocean and prosperous blue economy

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The Challenge has produced nearly a decade’s worth of research results, guidance, and tools from more than 100 projects. In our final year, we’ve focused on synthesizing this knowledge into accessible outputs that will lead to action and support continued efforts toward the Challenge vision. This synthesis brings together key messages and recommendations from our journey and provides knowledge generated in a format intended to enable its uptake, application, and further development.

We introduce nine topics prioritized by the Challenge community as being critical to enabling holistic ecosystem-based management (EBM) and te ao Māori approaches – and ultimately realize a healthy ocean and prosperous blue economy.

• Marine governance – sustaining ocean outcomes for future generations
• Enabling ecosystem-based management in Aotearoa New Zealand’s marine law and policy
• Empowering Māori knowledge in marine decision-making
• Addressing cumulative effects in marine management decisions
• Addressing risk and uncertainty in decision-making
  
• Restoring marine ecosystems through better management and financing
• Enabling effective marine spatial planning for ecological and economic wellbeing
• Enabling a broad knowledge base for marine management decisions
• Developing pathways to a flourishing blue economy