A healthy ocean, a protected climate
Today marks the beginning of UNFCCC COP26, and Parties to the Paris Agreement are gathered in Glasgow to discuss opportunities to strengthen and scale-up their climate action to achieve the Paris goals, in line with their national climate commitments: the Nationally Determined Contributions – or NDCs. While strong ocean-based climate action should not substitute drastic…
The COP26 for Climate begins today, and the world’s attention revolves around what is yet to happen in Glasgow, where decisive negotiations for the future of humanity will be held over 12 days. After two years of consecutive postponements due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this COP is highly awaited by the international community, as States…
Taking action in the face of sea level rise: a Map of Solutions for coastal cities and territories This year, World Cities Day theme “Adapting Cities for Climate Resilience” reflects rising concern over the challenges coastal cities and territories have to face. IPCC’s latest report reasserts that sea level rise could exceed one meter…
Full steam ahead toward the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26)! On October 25, Ifremer, the CNRS and the IRD, with support from the Ocean & Climate Platform and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, are launching a digital world tour of ocean and climate sciences, christened OneOceanScience. Scientists…
From the 11th to the 15th October 2021, the first stage of the COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity will take place, during which the representatives of the States Parties of the Convention will draw up a new “Kunming Declaration”. As the issue of biodiversity is becoming increasingly important on political agendas, this event,…
The ocean was at the heart of the debates at the World Conservation Congress in Marseille. As mentioned by the French Minister of the Sea, Annick Girardin, a high-level session was dedicated to the ocean for the first time at an IUCN congress. Nearly 100 ocean-related events were also organised during this international summit, and…