The Ocean and Climate Change: Tools and Guidelines for Action
IUCN - World Conservation Union
Climate change is severely and rapidly impacting species, ecosystems
and people around the globe. As both international and national mitigation
and adaptation strategies are being discussed, the impacts of climate
change and ocean acidification on the ocean, as well as the ocean’s role in
mitigation and adaptation strategies, has largely been overlooked.
70% of our planet consists of ocean. The ocean is the major regulating
force in the earth’s climate system and represents the largest carbon sink on
the planet. Healthy marine and coastal ecosystems and their services are
essential to maintain the earth’s life support system. Climate change and ocean
acidification are jeopardizing food security, shoreline protection, the provision
of income and livelihood sources and sustainable economic development.
Rapid and significant action is needed now! This brochure highlights the
most pressing climate change related ocean issues and presents a set
of tools and guidelines for the implementation of marine climate change
mitigation and adaptation strategies.
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