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For the Ocean=Climate module, W2O presents a documentary survey through interviews with international experts on the incontrovertible synergy between ocean and climate systems.

OCEAN DAY: THE COPENHAGEN CLIMATE TALKS (12 mins.)

TRAILER (:45 seconds)

World leaders converge on Copenhagen as a new decade approaches. Can the world craft a response to human-induced climate change? Not without taking the ocean into account. The word “ocean,” in fact, is scarcely mentioned in the official documents of the climate talks. Undeterred, marine experts race to organize Ocean Day and hold their own event nearby. Seldom has such a group convened, with such urgency. 

Seychelles Ambassador Ronnie Jumeau describes how his country and its Pacific island neighbors may soon be underwater. Ralph Payotte describes how ocean weather impacts coastal communities. Dr. Tony Haymet of Scripps Institute for Oceanography and Dr. Susan Avery of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution share their perspectives on research priorities and new technologies. Other experts discuss such issues as Fresh Water, Ocean Currents, Extreme Weather, Disease, Coastal Impacts, and Economic Consequences, and Ocean Policy. The Copenhagen talks fail to reach a multi-lateral accord, but the world ocean community charts its own course of solutions – mitigation, adaptation, and invention of new strategies for the future -- which notably include public participation by Citizens of the Ocean worldwide committed to making every day an ocean day.