Engaging, activating and innovating change; and accelerating investment that builds ocean health and resilience.
#Love30x30
The ocean gives us life: it provides half the oxygen we breathe, has absorbed a quarter of our CO2 emissions and over 90% of the excess heat trapped by those emissions, it puts food on our plates and is home to 80% of all life on Earth.
But it is in danger – and so are we. You may not be able to tell from above the surface, but the threats are many and the risks are real: plastic is choking sea life, pollution is causing ‘dead zones’, corals are dying, the ocean is warming and becoming more acidic, and too many boats are chasing fewer and fewer fish.
Luckily, it’s not too late to solve this crisis if we take urgent action NOW.
The ocean needs safe havens where nature can regenerate, and fortify itself against climate change and other threats, such as industrial fishing.
It’s time for a #Love30x30 ocean vision that strongly protects at least 30% of the ocean by 2030, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, coastal to high seas areas and everywhere in between.
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OCEAN UNITE
We deploy our network of over 30 global influencers from the worlds of politics, business, sport and media to deliver crucial Ocean messages to decision-makers at key moments that matter, ensure that at least 30 per cent of the ocean is highly protected by 2030, and to build ocean resilience.
Because the Ocean is Everybody’s Business, we also work with companies to highlight the importance of the ocean and to encourage them to ‘blue’ their businesses.
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Explore, use and share talking points on the key issues affecting our ocean.
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Leading from the front to drive urgently needed positive change for the Ocean community.
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LATEST STORIES
When scientists hear that 70–90% of #coralreefs could be gone by mid-century, they focus on the 30% that might live. Such places give #ocean ecologists hope that even as the climate warms, corals still have a fighting chance. https://buff.ly/37JO7Gw via @nature #oceanrisk
Think you can talk about the severity of #climatechange without including the ocean? Think again! It’s more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, and it’s time its essential services were reflected at the global level. #OneOceanOnePlanet #COP25
Seychelles ocean/climate commitment to protect 30% of their waters is equivalent to an area the size of Germany #Love30x30
#Antarctica and the surrounding #SouthernOcean are facing complex environmental change. This new review provides a wide synthesis of the environmental challenges facing this region and the impacts they will have: https://buff.ly/37IVT3j via @ScienceAdvances #oceanrisk
.@Greenpeace says efforts to restore seas’ ecosystems would boost their capacity to absorb heat and store carbon
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/04/tackling-ocean
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