A healthy ocean, a protected climate
In 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit, States simultaneously adopted the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). While the two conventions have strong potential for complementarity, cooperation mechanisms remain weak and insufficient. Almost 30 years later, while we have moved from a context of post-Cold War…
From March 22 to 28, 2021, will be held the 4th edition of the Monaco Ocean Week, an opportunity for the Ocean & Climate Platform and the Scientific Centre of Monaco to bring together a high-level panel of experts around the following issue: “Which Knowledge for Which Sustainable Ocean Governance?”.
Following the Ocean & Climate Meeting, the Ocean & Climate Platform unveils its policy brief: “Impacts of fishing and climate change on life below water: what challenges for the future? ”
The Ocean & Climate Platform mobilised for the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science
On 12 December 2015 the signatory countries to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reached a historic agreement. Five years on from the Paris Agreement the progress and prospects are not equal to the signatories ambitions. The Ocean and Climate Platform (OCP), speaking for some 100 member organizations dedicated to the sea from across the world, is raising awareness of the urgent need to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reinforce efforts to adapt coastal regions to the rising sea level. Of particular concern are coastal cities that are experiencing considerable population growth. The human and economic impacts expected in the short term are colossal. In addition to the vital goal of attaining carbon neutrality, we are facing a new race against time which requires the reinforcing of adaptation measures at COP26.
The year 2020 was meant to be a decisive stage in the implementation of the Paris Agreement with signatory commitments revised upwards. Efforts made to date have been insufficient to limit warming to 1.5 °C and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Prospects for climate change remain alarming, especially within the context of the current world pandemic. Nevertheless there…