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Annual State of the Global Climate report highlights continuous advance of climate change
Featuring the latest data from IOC/UNESCO on ocean acidification levels across the global ocean, the WMO State of the Global Climate report 2022 focuses on key climate indicators: greenhouse gases, temperatures, sea level rise, ocean heat and acidification, sea ice and glaciers. It also highlights the impacts of climate change and extreme weather.
• Drought, floods and heatwaves affect large parts of the world and the costs are rising
• Global mean temperatures for the past 8 years have been the highest on record
• Sea level and ocean heat are at record levels – and this trend will continue for many centuries
• Antarctic sea ice falls to lowest extent on record
• Europe shatters records for glacier melt
From mountain peaks to ocean depths, climate change continued its advance in 2022, according to the annual report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Droughts, floods and heatwaves affected communities on every continent and cost many billions of dollars. Antarctic sea ice fell to its lowest extent on record and the melting of some European glaciers was, literally, off the charts.
The State of the Global Climate 2022 shows the planetary scale changes on land, in the ocean and in the atmosphere caused by record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. For global temperature, the years 2015-2022 were the eight warmest on record despite the cooling impact of a La Niña event for the past three years. Melting of glaciers and sea level rise - which again reached record levels in 2022 - will continue to up to thousands of years.
Originally published by: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO)
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Special Issue Reprint "Land Modifications and Impacts on Coastal Areas" has been published online and is freely accessible
We are pleased to announce that the Special Issue Reprint "Land Modifications and Impacts on Coastal Areas" to which the CCMS team contributed has been published online and is freely accessible on the MDPI Books platform:
https://www.mdpi.com/books/book/6619-land-modifications-and-impacts-on-coastal-areas
The reprint book will be listed in book databases and is available through several distribution platforms. Furthermore, the reprint can be purchased as a printed copy directly from MDPI website.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CCMS: CELEBRATING 5 YEARS OF VIBRANT COASTAL AND MARINE STUDIES
CCMS is directly advised by Advisory Committee (AC), which involves seventeen distinguished and outstanding scientists and experts from different institutes, universities and organizations all around the globe (Australia, Belgium, Greece, Columbia, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA and Bulgaria). For more information on AC members explore the section for AC on our webpage: http://www.ccms.bg/en/about-ccms/advisory-committee.
Read more: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CCMS: CELEBRATING 5 YEARS OF VIBRANT COASTAL AND MARINE STUDIES
A NEW STUDY ON MSP AND MARINE AQUACULTURE PRODUCED BY THE EUROPEAN MSP PLATFORM IS OUT!
The European Commission and European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), have just published a technical study on “Access to space and water for marine aquaculture”. The objective of this study was to identify the main trends and practices for the allocation of marine space for the development of aquaculture across the EU, within the Maritime Spatial Plans (MSPs) produced to date. Based on consultation with EU Member States, the study presents the main enablers, blockers and model practices for the provision of space and water for the establishment of marine aquaculture.
Read more: A NEW STUDY ON MSP AND MARINE AQUACULTURE PRODUCED BY THE EUROPEAN MSP PLATFORM IS OUT!