The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has published a flagship report "State of the Ocean Report" (StOR) on the state of the world's oceans. The first edition of the report was launched during the 2022 UN Ocean Conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 27 to July 1.

"The Report will help to efficiently monitor the progress of the UN Ocean Decade, and, in time, can become an eagerly anticipated worldwide publication that will contribute significantly to mobilising global society to act towards "ocean we need for the future we want"," said Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO).