Loading ...Coral reefs, a message for COP15
According to studies led by the French CNRS (NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH), on oceans well 
of global carbon, the absorption capacity of CO2 of the southern ocean, previously estimated at 500 million tons a year, would be ten times less. Every year, 10 billion tons of CO2 are injected in the atmosphere by the human activities, against 6 billion in the 90s. While the ocean loses of its absorption capacity, its efficiency as a well of carbon, estimated previously at approximately 30 %, falls to less than 20 %.
Coral reefs are the most biologically diverse habitats of the oceans and face extinction due to climate change by 2050 . We’re hoping that the politicians and heads of state who attend the UNEP 2009 climate change conference in Copenhagen will make positive amendments to global environmental policy and help save coral reefs and ultimately protect the amazing planet we live on.
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