The idea for establishment of the GlobalHAB Programme arose at the final Synthesis Open Science Meeting (OSM) of the Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (GEOHAB) Programme in Paris, in April 2013 (GEOHAB 2014). Participants at the meeting evaluated and synthesized the outcomes of GEOHAB and agreed that international coordination of HAB science was still needed to increase understanding of these events and how to mitigate their impacts on humans and aquatic ecosystems. In 2015, the GlobalHAB Programme was formally adopted by the two cosponsors, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO [through the Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms (IPHAB)] and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), and was also endorsed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). IOC and SCOR appointed a Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) for the new GlobalHAB Programme in 2015, which met for the first time in March 2016 to initiate the development of the GlobalHAB Science and Implementation Plan that is summarized in this chapter. [...]

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