UN Association Climate and Oceans has adopted the following Documents as the basis of its Scientific approach:

- UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Special Report on Global Warming 1.5 C (2018)

- UN IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere - September 2019

- UN World Meteorological Organization Statement on Global Climate - March 2020

- UN IPCC Report on Climate Change and Land (2019)

- UN Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - The Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (2020)

- UNESCO Water and Climate Change Report 2020

- UNESCO Global Ocean Science Report 2017 (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission)

- UNA UK Climate 2020 Reports (years 2018, 2019 and 2020)

- A Farewell to Ice.   A Report from the Arctic - Peter Wadhams (2017)

- Commonwealth Blue Charter (2018) – Published by the Commonwealth Secretariat

- Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnerships UK - Report Card 2020 on Climate change imoact on UK coasts and seas