Implementation strategy for the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition 2015-20.

Abstract

This Implementation Strategy for IIOE-2 plays a key role in supporting the IIOE-2’s mission: to advance our understanding of the Indian Ocean and its role in the Earth System in order to enable informed decisions in support of sustainable development and the well-being of humankind. It builds on the four years of consultations, planning and institutional advocacy that have been undertaken for the IIOE-2 involving the Indian Ocean’s regional constituency as well as complementary global stakeholders. It forms the final link in the series of three seminal documents developed to precede the IIOE-2 launch in India on 4 December 2015, the other two being: the SCOR Science Plan Development Committee’s IIOE-2 Science Plan (Hood et al, 2015), which is the science framework for the IIOE-2; and the IOC Interim Planning Committee (Group of Experts) Strategic Framework for the Implementation of IIOE-2 (IPC, 2015). It is further underpinned by a vast amount of material having derived from a series of planning workshops, meetings and institutional deliberations by the co-sponsors IOC, IOGOOS and SCOR, available at www.iocperth.org and to be consolidated into the soon to be established IIOE-2 website at ESSO-INCOIS, Hyderabad, India.