| AI | artificial intelligence |
| AMOC | Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation |
| CARE | collective benefit, authority to control, responsibility, and ethics |
| CDR | carbon dioxide removal |
| eDNA | environmental deoxyribonucleic acid |
| EU | European Union |
| FAIR | findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable |
| IOC | Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
| LDC | Least Developed Country |
| ML | machine learning |
| NAKFI | National Academies Keck Futures Initiative |
| NBS | nature-based solution |
| NSTC | National Science and Technology Council |
| SIDS | Small Island Developing States |
| SOST | Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
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