A healthy ocean, a protected climate
The Our Ocean Conference, 5-6 October 2017 in Malta, is the occasion for the Ocean and Climate Initiatives Alliance (OCIA) to launch its new website. A unique digital platform highlighting the main Ocean projects to mitigate Climate Change. The website targets both decision-makers and the broader public to communicate on existing initiatives involved in ocean and…
This year, the COP23 will take place in Bonn, Germany, (6-17 November 2017). World leaders will meet to decide on the next steps to be taken to combat climate change. The Ocean and Climate Platform will attend to highlight the importance of the ocean in climate regulation. Discover our program: Thursday 9 November, 9.30 am…
Due to our incredible success as humans, our planet and our kids are under pressure. Facing these challenges, we have no choice but to be optimistic and to believe that tomorrow will be better than today. I have no doubt that investing in the Ocean, its research and protection, will take us further up the…
The Our Ocean Conference on October 5-6, 2017 brought together worldwide leaders from all sectors and resulted in 437 commitments to take action for the ocean. On this occasion, Queen Noor of Jordan, Brune Poirson (French Secretary of State for the Ministry for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition) and Karmenu Vella (European Commissioner for the…
With more than 8000 participants, ministers, heads of states and the entire ocean community, the first United Nations Ocean conference successfully continues today on June 8, 2017 with the world ocean day. This demonstrates the ocean has become a major priority for the international community. Pollution, acidification, deoxygenation, overfishing…These threats amongst…
A new model predicts that French Polynesia will serve as a climate refuge for the survival of coral reefs in the future New climate model projections of the world’s coral reefs reveal which reefs will be hit first by annual coral bleaching, an event that poses the gravest threat to one of the Earth’s most…