- On Climate Change TV you’ll find an interview of Philippe VALLETTE, General Manager of Nausicaá and Co-President of the World Ocean Network.

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- An Ocean-Climate Interview of Philippe VALLETTE:

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Un reportage de Le développement durable.tv sur la Journée des Océans, le 14 décembre 2009 à Copenhague:

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Dessinateur humoriste et artiste peintre, PIEM a collaboré à de nombreux titres de presse, dont le Point, la Croix et le Figaro. Il s'est fait connaître du grand public en participant à l'émission de télévision Le Petit rapporteur.

La Terre jusqu'au Trognon, Le Cherche Midi Editions, Paris, 2009.

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Oceans Day at Copenhagen UNFCCC COP-15 (December 14, 2009), the first-ever Oceans Day at a UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, brought together 320 leaders from governments, UN agencies, NGOs, science, and industry from 40 countries to focus on the central role of the oceans in climate change and the fact that close to 50% of the world’s population living in coastal areas will suffer disproportionately from ocean warming, sea level rise, extreme weather events, and ocean acidification.

Oceans Day underscored the following for consideration by UNFCCC negotiators in the climate talks beyond Copenhagen:

1.  The UNFCCC negotiating text should recognize that oceans (70% of the earth) play a central role in climate--oceans generate oxygen, absorb carbon dioxide (about 30%) and regulate climate and temperature.   When these functions are threatened, the future of the planet is threatened.  

By the International Coastal and Ocean Organization, on behalf of the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands

At the Sixth Session of ad hoc working group on long-term cooperative action under the unfccc, Bonn

1-12 June 2009

To urge the UNFCCC to further emphasize the importance of marine and freshwater ecosystems and resources and their  ecosystem-based principles and approaches in the shared vision for long-term cooperative action and  the adaptation, mitigation, financing, and technology strategies and measures.

For more information download the document “UNFCCC Global Forum declaration ”

By representatives from 76 countries

At the Global Ocean Policy Day, World Ocean Conference (WOC), Manado, Indonesia

14 May 2009

To push ocean issues as an agenda at the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen in December.

Download the document “Manado ocean declaration – policy day”

By the Ministers and the Head of Delegations

At the World Ocean Conference (WOC) on the impact of climate change to the ocean, and the role of ocean to climate change, Manado, Indonesia

11-15 May 2009

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December 7-18 / Stand No. H-043 C, Bella Center, Copenhagen

The World Ocean Network and the International Coastal and Ocean Organization / Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands have worked together since the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 in a symbiotic relationship whereby the ICO has produced policy messages about global oceans goals and their effective implementation and the WON has translated and widely disseminated these messages to publics around the world, always emphasizing the centrality of changes in individual behaviour as a major path to change.

The exhibit: How can civil society and private sector be mobilized on ocean issues and climate change impacts and empowered to resolve the challenges they face following the Copenhagen Agreement? is about enhancing public understanding and pro-active participation in the discussions on the implications of the Copenhagen agreement for oceans, coasts, and island states and the development of appropriate mitigation and adaptation responses through interactive media, posters and fact sheets.

It deals with public outreach strategies that are needed to foster individual and community behaviour and to facilitate change at all levels in all sectors of society.

An urgent message to world leaders:

The European Union of Aquarium Curators (EUAC) represents >120 members from 21 countries. Over 70 million people visit European aquariums every year.

We send an urgent message to world leaders, to express our extreme concerns about the serious threat to aquatic ecosystems from climate change. Proposals to limit CO2 levels to 450ppm will not prevent the catastrophic loss of coral reefs from the combined effects of global warming and ocean acidification. To ensure the long term viability of coral reefs the atmospheric CO2 level must be reduced significantly below 350ppm.

Agreement un Copenhagen to reduce atmospheric CO2 to the safe <350ppm is the only way to give the international conservation community a real chance to manage the negative effects of climate change on the natural world.

Through concerted and immediate actions, this target is achievable. To avoid catastrophic consequences for aquatic ecosystems, it is essential. 

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