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Editorial - Climate Change and the Oceans

David Freestone

DOI https://doi.org/10.21552/CCLR/2009/4/109



a of the UN Climate Negotiations. Despite the fact that the world’s oceans constitute the biggest single sink of carbon dioxide and represent more than 30% of the global carbon cycle, no one has asked them to the Ball. They have hardly been mentioned in the two years of UNFCCC negotiations leading to Copenhagen. The aim of this special issue is to help to set this record straight. The world’s oceans play a crucial role in climate change – both as victims of the problem and as part of the solution. The oceans cover more than 70% of the planet and account

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