Climate change puts the health of the world's oceans at stark risk, but a global consensus has yet to be reached on which paths will lead to a solution. Every indecisive moment is a lost opportunity to bequeath a better world to future generations.
Speakers at the World Ocean Conference 2009, the first large-scale international event to bring together both ocean and climate change stakeholders and specialists, highlighted that oceans themselves play a key role in transforming the world's geography as temperature rise and that rising sea levels will have an impact on small-island developing states.
Governments, their development partners, nongovernment organizations, and the private sector must move quickly to adapt to or mitigate the impacts of climate change, speakers said. They must also, for the benefit of humanity, agree on ways to use marine resources sustainably.
Country delegates at the conference adopted the Manado Ocean Declaration, which recognizes that oceans play a crucial role in the global climate system and in moderating its weather systems, and that the oceanographic processes that result from this interaction will affect the rate of climate change.
This conference report goes beyond simply listing the proceedings and instead highlights key issues raised and solutions put forward by some of the more than 3,000 researchers, scientists, educators, and ocean experts from 74 countries who attended.
The report on the talks, held in Manado, Indonesia, is an important part of official preparations for the 15th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Conference of the Parties, to be held in Copenhagen in December 2009.
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ISBN: 978-971-561-867-0
Publication Date: May 2009
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