Intergovernmental oceanographical Commission
The intergovernmental Oceanographical Commission of UNESCO (COI, or English IOC) provides to the Member States the United Nations, an essential mechanism of co-operation for the study of the Océan.
The COI helps the governments to solve their individual problems and collectives related on the oceans and the coasts, by allowing the division of knowledge, information and technologies and by coordinating the national plans.
The COI was founded in 1960 on the principle that " the oceans, which cover approximately 70% surface of the sphere, exert a deep influence on Humanity and, in fact, on all forms of life on Earth… In order to have an exact idea of the value that the oceans for very whole Humanity represent, it is necessary to study them from many points of view. As regards research, the initiatives and the novel ideas generally come from individuals and small groups, but under multiple aspects oceanographical research constitutes a task too much vast so that only one country, or even an small group of country, can the entreprendre."
External bonds
- Official site.
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