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"ATHENS — From April 15-17, state delegates, organization representatives,
academics and philanthropists met at the 9th Our Ocean Conference (OOC) in
Athens to discuss the protection of the world’s oceans and pledge actions to
safeguard their future.
As the OOC took place, news broke about the world’s coral reefs undergoing a
mass bleaching event, which lent a sense of urgency to the conference. Experts
say this global bleaching event is a result of the current El Niño climate
pattern as well as the ongoing rise in global ocean temperatures due to
human-induced climate change.
“Devastating but also predictable,” is how Melissa Wright, a senior member of
the environment team at Bloomberg Philanthropies, which funds ocean
conservation work, described the bleaching event at the conference’s opening
press briefing. She urged leaders to take “decisive action” on climate change
as well as other threats such as overfishing, pollution and development."
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