Page 5 - Respond 2020 Magazine

RESPOND

ear friends, please
receive our very
Dwarm greetings.

As you know, this year, 2019,
is a very important year for
the protection of our oceans
from climate change.

Our knowledge of the
oceans, although still limited,
has provided considerable
information and evidence that turn
on the alarms to push us to promote
concrete actions to protect our oceans.

The IPCC special report on the oceans is a very
important document that will give us scientific evidence
that shows the need to move fast, with urgency, to protect our oceans.

Time is running out. This is why Chile has been pushing to highlight this problem. In
our vision there cannot be an effective global response to climate change without a
global response on the ocean issues.

For Chile, presiding over COP25 represents a great opportunity to put the ocean
issues in the climate agenda. So, we await you all in Madrid in December this year. In
the “Blue COP,” we will make great changes.

Carolina Schmidt
COP25 President and Chile Environment Minister

Adapted from a video addressing a special preparatory meeting in Madrid in spring 2019.

2 Plaza Mayor - Madrid. Photo credit: Tomasz Baranowski (CC BY 2.0). 3