Here’s the link to all the presentations….DV
http://www.oceansday.org/presentations.html
UN Climate Change Conference – Cancún
Dear W2O Subscribers,
UN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE-CANCÚN-OCEAN DAY
The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference is taking place in Cancún, Mexico, now through the 10th of December. The two-week meeting is the sixteenth Conference of the 194 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the sixth meeting of the 192 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. Close to 15,000 participants, including government delegates from the 194 Parties to the UNFCCC and representatives from business and industry, environmental organizations and research institutions, are attending the two-week gathering in Cancún.
Today, Monday, December 6, the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Small Islands, along with other partners, will host an OCEAN DAY event to present and discuss ocean issues relevant to the discussions and to advocate for inclusion of such issues in the Conference outcomes. For additional information and reports on the meeting, go to www.global-forum.edu.
The WORLD OCEAN OBSERVATORY, in collaboration with the Global Forum, has created a special website—oceanclimate.org—to address the profound interrelation between ocean and climate to include video interviews, on-line links and resources, a new feed, and interactive forum for comment. Issues addressed are: CO2 emissions, polar melt, extreme weather, acidification, fresh water, disease, biodiversity, coastal resources, economic effects, and impacts on small island nations. Responses addressed are: mitigation, adaptation, invention, and public participation.
We hope you will visit and use these resources in your educational and outreach endeavors.
OCEAN CLIMATE AND THE W2O SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE FOR PUBLIC OUTREACH
During the past year, the W2O has been building upon a concept–an institutional cost sharing for the production of audio-visual and educational services on key ocean issues for use by aquariums, maritime museums, and other ocean-related organizations worldwide. The W2O Subscription Project offers two such modules per year at an astonishingly low cost, pro-rated among what we hope will be many institutions around the world. The first module on OCEAN CLIMATE is complete and contains a video overview and interviews on ocean climate issues; a second video on Ocean Acidification, narrated by Sigourney Weaver, and produced in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council; a live webcast event (to be scheduled) on Extreme Ice; and a catalogue of related educational resources.
The second module—on marine biodiversity and coral reefs—is now in production. Thus, both modules will be available to you for your 2011 program. Watch the trailer for OCEAN CLIMATE here.
This new resource is an on-going series of provocative, affordable, up-to-date video and associated materials to enrich your audio-visual presentations on key ocean issues. Our materials are produced (in HD and additional formats) to be viewed in your theaters, in exhibits, on kiosks, on your website, and in your educational programs. Our license restricts you only from any commercial use or transfer for any reason in any form to any third party. A full contract document and access to the current module is available upon request.
As a subscriber, your institution will gain not only valuable interpretive resources but also contribute to the self-sustaining continuity of these materials into the future. In these times of financial restriction, I submit this unique cooperative approach will efficiently and economically improve your educational services and extend the presentation of responsible ocean science and policy through your aquarium, maritime museum, science center, or environmental organization to a collective audience of millions worldwide committed to the sustainable ocean. For further details, and to subscribe, please contact : director@thew2o.net.
Best wishes,
Peter Neill, Director
You may also find this newsletter online at: http://www.thew2o.net/newsletter/un-climate-change-conference-canc-n