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Who?… What? is affecting the Future of Our Seas and Marine Ecosystems?

In an exclusive interview with Mother Channel, Assoc. Prof. Colin Attwood from the Dept. of Biological Sciences, UCT speaks about his focus on Marine Ecology, Conservation and Fisheries which involves inter alia, the evaluation of the role of marine protected areas in conservation and fisheries, monitoring and assessment of coastal fish stocks, particularly recreational fisheries, […]
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COP 21 Ari Huhtala – Climate & Development Knowledge Network

The University of Earth, Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Ari Huhtala, an economist from Finland Deputy CEO of the Climate & Development Knowledge Network, which helps developing countries to face the challenges of climate change while still undertaking development and poverty alleviation.
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Time is running out – The Arctic sea ice is going!

Interview with Professor Peter Wadhams, leading Arctic scientist and Prof. of Ocean Physics at Cambridge University, with Judy Sole of Mother Channel. In 40 years, since 1970, of sea ice research and pole oceanography, Prof. Wadhams has observed and measured changes in arctic and antarctic ice, which have and are still adversely affecting and accelerating […]
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COP 20 Azeb Girmai IofC-Ethiopia on Adaptation & Mitigation Actions

Ms. Azeb Girmai of Initiatives of Change (IofC) and LDC Watch in conjunction with other panel speakers, addressed the issues of lack of support and funding from developed countries for LDC’s (Least Developed Countries) and Africa in terms of adaptation and mitigation, as well as binding adaptation actions not being embedded in the COP negotiations. […]
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UK Pavilion Green zone – Side event on Climate readiness – Ocean based adaptation and mitigation

A panel discussion on the current and future potential role of the ocean in adaptation and mitigation of climate change and potential uncertainties. These include protection, expansion and location of marine carbon sinks (blue carbon), use of small scale algal farming to enhance local fishers’ adaptive capacity to ocean acidification, large scale capture and storage […]
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Mark Marcovino – Law Enforcement and Moving Sushi

Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 7 – Marco Marcovino, EU Commission for Monitoring, Control and Surveillance of Fisheries; Multi-party Task team in Tanzania on Environmental Organised Crime, and leads an NPO called Moving Sushi, which provides ope access to an International Marine Database […]

Root Causes

The root causes of global warming are the increase in gases that warm the planet and the removal of the vegetation and other organisms which would reduce Green House gases . INCREASE OF – CO2 – by the burning of fossil fuel (oil and coal), and the diminishing of vegetation and phytoplankton that normally hold […]