Build the evidence needed to make BBNJ work

GBBNJ needs more than a place to share evidence. It needs the capacity to continuously produce it.

The BBNJ Agreement creates new demands for countries and organizations to understand, assess, monitor, and share information about biodiversity and human activities in areas beyond national jurisdiction. But generating that evidence is often slow, expensive, and fragmented—especially when data, expertise, and monitoring programs span countries, organizations, sectors, and borders.

eOceans® helps turn the data and expertise you already have into current, verifiable evidence—without requiring every country, organization, or project to build its own data, GIS, analysis, and reporting infrastructure.

From observations to evidence

Whether you are supporting an EIA, area-based management tool, marine protected area, biodiversity assessment, monitoring program, or capacity-building initiative, eOceans® connects the workflow from field observations and existing evidence through analysis, mapping, and reporting.

Instead of repeatedly rebuilding databases and reports, teams can continuously build on what already exists as new observations and evidence become available.

Build locally. Connect globally.

BBNJ depends on collaboration across countries, organizations, researchers, communities, and sectors—but collaboration does not require everyone to give up ownership of their data.

With eOceans®, organizations retain ownership and control of their data and decide what they connect and share. Countries and partners can answer their own questions while contributing selected evidence to a broader, shared understanding of high-seas biodiversity and environmental change.

This creates opportunities to connect evidence across projects, organizations, countries, regions, and scales without forcing everyone into the same workflow.

Make capacity go further

The challenge isn't simply collecting more data. It is having enough capacity to turn that data into something useful.

eOceans® automates much of the repetitive work involved in data management, analysis, mapping, visualization, and reporting, helping teams spend more of their limited time on science, collaboration, governance, and action.

For capacity-building and marine technology initiatives, this means helping more teams develop and maintain their own evidence workflows—rather than simply handing them another dataset or asking them to build another system.

A living evidence base

BBNJ will depend on evidence that remains useful as conditions change.

With eOceans®, results can be continuously updated as new observations and datasets are added, making it easier to understand what is changing, where it is changing, what threats and impacts are emerging, and whether conservation and management actions are working.

That can strengthen the evidence base for science-based decision-making, transparency, accountability, collaboration, and trust—from individual projects to the high seas.

BBNJ needs a living evidence base—not another static database.

Build your evidence. Keep it current. Connect what matters. Share it on your terms.