A healthy ocean, a protected climate
After the dramatic consequences of hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria and Jose, this year in 2017, understanding the origins of such extreme events is of growing importance. What is the nexus between cyclones, the Ocean, and climate change? Tropical cyclones, also called hurricanes in the North Atlantic Ocean[1], are violent perturbations, or atmospheric depressions. The “eye”…
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…
To give a voice to a rather creative youth, the “Shipping” working group of the Ocean and Climate Platform, coordinated by Armateurs de France and Surfrider Foundation Europe, launched in 2016 the “OCP Challenge”. This contest will give students the opportunity to work on the issue of the energy transition in maritime transportation. For its…
The first Ocean and Climate Initiatives Alliance Meeting has been held in Paris at Unesco Headquarters and was concluded at French Ministry of Environment, Energy and the Sea on February 22, 2017. Before going further into the conclusions of this important meeting, check out the pictures of the day : © Guillaume Bounaud/ Ocean & Climate Platform To read…