Coral reefs
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Global tipping points report 2025
Global warming will soon exceed 1.5°C. This report details the escalating risks presented by earth system destabilisation and emphasises the necessity of triggering positive tipping points to achieve urgent climate action. The report is not only a warning but a guide: it maps where dangers converge, but also where opportunities to tip systems positively are...
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Understanding climate threats to the Great Barrier Reef
This report examines how ocean warming, acidification and more frequent extreme weather events are affecting the Great Barrier Reef’s health and the risks to its unique ecosystems in an increasingly warming climate. The report argues urgent action worldwide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit the increase of global warming is essential to keep open...
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Niue marine ecological surveys, 2016 and 2017
There have been no extensive surveys of Niue’s coral reef fisheries stocks over the past 10 years since the 2005 Pacific Regional Oceanic and Coastal Fisheries survey. To rectify this, the Coastal Fisheries Programme of the Pacific Community conducted two marine ecological surveys around Niue in September and October 2016 and in September and October...
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Status and trends of coral reefs of the Pacific
This document is part of the status report series of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) founded in 1995 as part of the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) to document the ecological conditions of coral reefs, to strengthen monitoring efforts, and to link existing organisations and people working with coral reefs around the world.
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Impacts of climate change on world heritage coral reefs: update to the first global scientific assessment
The update was produced in response to World Heritage Committee Decision 41 COM7 (Krakow/UNESCO, 2017) to make available the most current knowledge regarding the impacts of climate change on World Heritage properties.