Parley Talks: UN x Parley
‘Oceans. Climate. Life.’
“We are at war with the oceans. We are destroying the magic blue universe beneath us with the exploitative way we are doing business, before we even really explored it.”
CYRILL GUTSCH
To keep the focus on the oceans in the run-up to COP21, a Parley Talks session and launch event under the title “Oceans. Climate. Life.” was held at the United Nations in New York, on the occasion of the High-Level Meeting on Climate Change convened by the President of the General Assembly.
Speakers included
Cyrill Gutsch, Fabien Cousteau, Captain Paul Watson, Louie Psihoyos, Sylvia Earle, David de Rothschild, Iain Kerr, Ora Ito, Chris Jordan, Eric Liedtke, John Warner, Captain Sid Chakravarty, Tim Coombs and Dianna Cohen.
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"Her Deepness" Dr. Sylvia Earle urges us to consider the impacts of marine plastic pollution, overfishing, ocean acidification and human-driven changes she has witnessed in the span of just 50 years.