Whereas every person on the planet benefits from a healthy ocean and a stable cryosphere; Whereas the ocean covers more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface; Whereas the cryosphere includes the frozen components of the Earth’s system, including snow, glaciers, ice sheets, ice shelves, icebergs, sea ice, and permafrost; Whereas glaciers, ice sheets, and permanent snow hold approximately 69 percent of Earth’s freshwater; Whereas the ocean generates the oxygen that we breathe, regulates our climate and weather patterns, supplies food, is a source of cultural value, supports tourism and trade, and is an untapped renewable energy resource; Whereas the ocean and cryosphere support biodiversity and regulate the global exchange of water, energy, and carbon; Whereas, on September 25, 2019, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC); Whereas the SROCC is the most comprehensive scientific assessment of the effects of climate change on our ocean and coasts, and polar and mountain ecosystems to date; Whereas more than 100 scientists from 36 countries produced the SROCC and it was reviewed by thousands of scientific experts from around the world; Whereas according to the SROCC— (1) the ocean has taken up more than 90 percent of excess heat in the climate system since 1970 and has warmed as a direct result of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions; (2) marine heatwaves have very likely doubled in frequency from 1982 to 2016 and are very likely to become longer-lasting, more intense, and more extensive; (3) the rate of ocean warming has more than doubled since 1993; (4) the ocean has very likely absorbed up to 30 percent of total anthropogenic carbon since the 1980s, causing the ocean to become more acidic; (5) the ocean is losing oxygen at an unprecedented rate, and oxygen loss will very likely emerge over 59 to 80 percent of the ocean surface by 2031–2050