These are the resources from the session Climate Change – the Marine Environment on Thursday 29th September 2022
Recordings
Climate change and the global ocean – Sue Kay (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
Bringing together faith, science and people – Marie Schlenker (Melanesian Mission)
Local and global: responding to climate change in the Exe estuary and coastline – Anne-Marie Culhane and Jo Salter (Tidelines)
Speakers’ websites
Plymouth Marine Laboratory https://pml.ac.uk/
Melanesian Mission UK https://www.mmuk.net/
Tidelines https://tidelines.uk/
Actions
Greenpeace petition Ban supertrawlers and other destructive fishing from the UK’s offshore Marine Protected Areas and stand up for ocean protection. https://action.greenpeace.org.uk/ban-destructive-fishing
Greenpeace petition: Stop sewage pollution. Clean up and protect our beaches, rivers and waterways https://action.greenpeace.org.uk/stop-sewage1
Greenpeace petition: Keep supertrawlers out of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/take-action/#petition (scroll down).
Current MPAs are much better than nothing, but they are not perfect. Here are two campaigns for better MPAs: https://www.mcsuk.org/what-you-can-do/campaigns/marine-unprotected-areas-campaign/
Join the Plastic Free Exmouth beach clean https://www.eastdevon.radio/calendar/event/plastic-free-exmouth-beach-clean/
The Marine Conservation Society organises beach cleans, citizen science activities and campaigns https://www.mcsuk.org/
CoastSnap is a global citizen science project to capture our changing coastlines.https://www.coastsnap.com/
Information
Find more information on oceans at COP27 at https://unfccc.int/news/blueing-the-paris-agreement-at-cop27
Learn about UK marine habitats and Marine Conservations Zones and sign up to a monthly newsletter https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/habitats/marine
Learn about sustainable tuna fishing: https://ipnlf.org/
Why we need marine protected areas: https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/challenges/ocean-sanctuaries/
Other links
Healthcare Ocean https://www.healthcareocean.org/
United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) https://en.unesco.org/ocean-decade
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) https://en.unesco.org/sids