With a focus on oceans, we collaborated across social, ecological and legal disciplines to respond to the United Nations call for transformation in the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’. We developed a set of 13 principles for transformative ocean governance through transformative ocean science (complementing the UN Decade for Ocean Science). These principles can bring and keep together partnerships for innovative ocean action that responds to the many calls to reform current ocean-use practices based on economic growth models that have perpetuated inequities and fuelled conflict and environmental decline. We use a rigorous, iterative and transparent consensus-building approach to define the principles, which we recommend are applied as a comprehensive set to transform unsustainable ocean governance practices and guide partnerships to navigate inevitable tensions. We show that the relationships between the principles can be supporting, neutral or sometimes conflicting, an...

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