Climate

The reports on Rio+20 are in, and they are not good for the ocean. Many experts and activists from around the globe worked hard to formulate serious policy recommendations and priorities, and went to Rio to advocate for inclusion of ocean sustainability in the final report. Many  of these hard working individuals and groups left Rio disappointed.

For the UN Rio+20 Conference in June, ocean leaders published a declaration intended to inform delegates and to advocate for ocean issues to be included in the conference outcome and the global development agenda for the next two decades. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will outline the seven action items of the declaration in order to share the scope and limits of the concerns being addressed by experts and agencies working on these issues every day.

We often think of the ocean as a place apart, but it is not so. The ocean is as threatened by exhaustion as the land around us. As population increases, so too do demands for energy, food, fresh water, and the pollutants which we use to meet those requirements. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will argue that the ocean begins at the mountain top, that everything that occurs on land descends to the sea, that every behavior on land impacts the downstream.

One group of scientists/economists is attempting to define the health of the ocean by a number: a new Ocean Health Index.  Sponsored by Conservation International, the National Geographic Society, the New England Aquarium, and staffed by scientists from many leading ocean research and advocacy organizations aro