UN Decade Challenge 6: navigating the waves of the future—enhancing community resilience to ocean-related hazards

Abstract The ocean, a dynamic and complex system, is crucial to Earth’s environmental and human life balance, from regulating the climate to supporting biodiversity and livelihoods. Monitoring the ocean has always been essential, but the increasing climate change impacts have made it a critical necessity for safeguarding our future through timely predictions and mitigation measures. The Ocean Decade is an initiative to find transformative solutions to existing and future challenges facing the ocean and thus humankind. Among its 10 challenges, Challenge 6 focuses on enhancing coastal community resilience to ocean-related hazards by adapting advancements in science. This article explores how building community resilience through data integration, community outreach, and policy development can contribute to achieving the Ocean Decade’s vision of ‘A Safe Ocean’.