KAIRO: Act now to limit global warming and save our oceans, ice cover
An iceberg near the island of Kulusuk, in the Sermersooq municipality on the southeastern shore of Greenland on August 17, 2019. Human-induced climate change is causing adverse consequences on the seas and cryosphere. PHOTO | JONATHAN NACKSTRAND | AFP
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate released in Monaco on September 25, 2019, had an overarching message, that the negative impacts of human activities are responsible for global warming that is affecting our oceans, leading to declining fish stocks, death of coral reefs, and rising sea levels that could displace millions of people.
The ocean and cryosphere—the frozen parts of our planet—play a critical role in sustaining life on earth, the same way that the open seas, the Arctic, Antarctic and high mountains do.
