On September 25, in Monaco, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), launched its Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a changing climate. This unprecedented event in IPCC’s history finally marks the recognition of the ocean as a major challenge of climate change, and the Ocean and Climate Platform is thrilled with this victory. The Platform, along with Monaco, France and Chile, had been actively calling on the IPCC, since COP21, for the necessity to produce this Special Report during its 6th Assessment Cycle.
Only French non governmental organisation to have participated to the governmental reviewing of this major Report, the Ocean and Climate Platform presents its learning sheets entitled “Ocean and Climate : new challenges”, a booklet tackling 5 main themes covered by the Special Report : the warming of the ocean, melting ice sheets and ice caps, rising sea levels, extreme events and deoxygenation. Many alarming phenomena that constitute major challenges to come, and which complex interactions are synthesized into two schemes: “Impacts of human activities on the ocean and climate interactions” and “Ocean and climate change : overview of consequences”.
Following the articles published for COP21, the Platform and its experts’ committees are also publishing scientific sheets on 13 themes essential to the understanding of current climate issues, providing new data and as a complement to the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere. A perspective on the latest ocean-climate news, in order to raise awareness on the key issues of our time and move from science to action.
A healthy ocean is a protected climate and the understanding of these interactions now determines our evolution towards a sustainable world and respectful of living life as a whole.
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This booklet has been realized by scientific mediators who are members of the Ocean and Climate Platform, working for the following entities: the Tropical Aquarium of the Porte Dorée, the National Center for Scientific Research, the Oceanographic Institute – Prince Albert 1st of Monaco Foundation, the French National Museum of Natural History, Nausicaa, Océanopolis, and the Union of Aquarium Curators.