The main objective of the INCT on Biodiversity of the Blue Amazon is to establish a National Cooperation Network in Science and Technology with broad capacity for research, training of human resources and extension on the biological diversity of the Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone (ZEE) and beyond the sea in a integrated and multidisciplinary, aiming at investigation and monitoring that allow qualified analyzes to expand the predictive potential on the effects of climate change and anthropogenic impacts and thus propose mitigation strategies for the conservation of biota and all its biotechnological potential and other ecosystem services. This proposal, therefore, will contribute significantly to Brazil's Decade of Ocean Science Plan.