Oceans Reaching Limit of Soaking up Global Warming

A new IUCN report, entitled “Explaining ocean warming: causes, scale, effects and consequences”, sets out the most recent and comprehensive review to date on this topic and shows a complex story of change in the ocean.

This change is underway, often already locked in for many decades to come, and has already begun to impact people’s lives. 

This is no longer a single story of ocean warming challenges to coral reefs, but a rapidly growing list of alarming changes across species at ecosystem scales, and across geographies spanning the entire world.

It is pervasive change, driven by ocean warming and other stressors already operating in ways we are only beginning to understand, where essential gaps in marine data, systems and capabilities are leaving the world poorly prepared to cope in the future.

Read the UN Climate Change Newsroom story - “Oceans Reaching Limit of Soaking up Global Warming.”