Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability sounds the alarm about the health of the ocean, and explains how it influences our everyday life by regulating the climate, providing highly-nutritious food and by sustaining livelihoods and economies.
This was just the beginning of a discussion to ensure the future health of our ocean, coasts and Great Lakes.
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This session focused on the multiple stressors that are affecting the health of the oceans of ocean warming, acidification, and deoxygenation, which are occurring as a result of climate change.
The President is committed to ensuring the health and productivity of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources for the benefit of all Americans.
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Metop's suite of instruments retrieve a range of data - from the temperature and water content of the different layers in the atmosphere to the speed of the winds whipping across the ocean, and from the health of the ozone layer to the spread of volcanic ash plumes across the sky.
It aims to encourage Member States to renew their political commitment to ocean health ahead of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development which will take place in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012.
Programmes target a wide range of national, regional and global challenges such as climate change, ocean health and fisheries, disaster warning and mitigation, capacity building, and data availability and exchange.
However, the numbers currently being treated in specialist clinics are just a "drop in the ocean, " given the millions of Indians with little or no access to health care, according to Gulrez Shah Azhar, a senior lecturer at the Indian Institute of Public Health in Gandhinagar.
Oceans Day at Durban will draw high-level attention to ocean issues during the COP17 climate talks, highlighting the direct link between climate change, the health of the oceans, and human well-being, as well as the need for sufficient funding to support bold mitigation and adaptation measures that will minimize climate change impacts on coastal communities and ocean ecosystems and resources.
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