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Ben van Beurden says ‘another Brazil in terms of rainforest’ will help achieve UN target. Click on the link below to read the full article.
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Protecting and restoring forests would reduce 18% of emissions by 2030 and help to avoid global temperature rise beyond 1.5C. Click on the link below to read the full article.
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The Pacific's environmental agency says it's clear any warming above 1.5 degrees threatens the very fabric of Pacific islands and communities. Click on the link below to read the full article.
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Please find SPREP’s Climate Change Matters newsletter for the period August-September, 2018. Click on the link below to access the newsletter.
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Join us Thursday, October 11, 10 am EDT/7 am PDT/2 pm UTC/3 pm British Summer Time for a webinar on Implications of climate change for managing coastal and marine protected habitats and species, co-sponsored by the NOAA National MPA Center, MPA News, and the EBM Tools Network (co-c
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Author of key UN climate report says limiting temperature rise would require enormous, immediate transformation in human activity. Click on the link below to read the full article.
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Mounting scientific evidence is showing how Earth’s largest organisms can join forces with some of the smallest to combat climate change. Click on the link below to read the full article.
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...King Tupou VI of Tonga was joined by a host of other Pacific Island leaders calling for action on what they saw as “the defining issue of our time”. Click on the link to read the full article
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The joint initiative, worth €21 million, was launched during yesterday's One Planet Summit in New York...the EU, France, Australia and New Zealand have joined forces to make it a reality. Click on the link below to read the full article.
Deep reefs of the Great Barrier Reef offer limited thermal refuge during mass coral bleaching
Our rapidly warming climate is threatening coral reefs as thermal anomalies trigger mass coral bleaching events. Deep (or “mesophotic”) coral reefs are hypothesised to act as major ecological refuges from mass bleaching, but empirical assessments are limited. We evaluated the potential of mesophotic reefs within the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and adjacent Coral Sea to act as thermal refuges by characterising long-term temperature conditions and assessing impacts during the 2016 mass bleaching event.