OA Alliance featured During UN Interactive Dialogue

INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE 3: MINIMIZING AND ADDRESSING OCEAN ACIDIFICATION, DEOXYGENATION AND WARMING

The OA Alliance was welcomed as an invited panelist to the official UN Ocean Conference Interactive Dialogue on SDG 14.3 which took place Wednesday, June 29 at 10:00am GMT +1. We took the opportunity to share members’ efforts to better understand and respond to ocean and coastal acidification.

Ms. Jessie Turner, Director of the OA Alliance brought home the importance of taking action now:

“When talking about climate change impacts on our ocean, we must be clear that while we don’t know everything, we know enough to act. We know enough to begin prioritizing and exploring the key questions that are most important to policy makers, seafood industries and coastal communities.  And the good news is…we have lots of existing frameworks across different scales of governance that can be leveraged to take up this work.”

Co-Chairs

• H.E. Mr. John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, USA

• H.E. Hon. Matthew Samuda, Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Jamaica

Moderator

• Mr. Stephen Widdicombe, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Science at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML); Co-Chair of the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) Executive Council, Plymouth, UK

Panelists

• Mr. Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna

• Mr. Johan Stander, Director of Services, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva

• Ms. Jessie Turner, Director of the International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification, USA

• Mr. Hans Otto-Pörtner, Co-Chair of the IPCC Working Group II (WG II); Head of the

• Integrated Ecophysiology Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany