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Related to the projects selected for the Climate & Biodiversity Initiative, and in order to raise awareness among all audiences, the BNP Paribas Foundation organises lectures to understand better phenomena connected to climate disruption, their consequences on biodiversity and by extension on our societies. The researchers involved in the projects selected through the Climate & Biodiversity Initiative deliver the lectures.

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Collecting never-before-available climate change data from the Southern Ocean

29th January 2015 Conference of Stéphane Blain, university professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, manager of the SOCLIM team Teams from the Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne – LOM, UPMC-CNRS [Microbial Oceanography Laboratory], Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique – LMD, ENS-CNRS-UPMC-Ecole Polytechnique [Laboratory for Dynamic Meteorology] and Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche – LOV, UPMC-CNRS [Villefranche Oceanography Laboratory] in France launch the Southern Ocean and Climate (SOCLIM) project with support from the BNP Paribas Foundation. The Southern Ocean plays an extremely important role in the climate of our planet. This is due firstly to its geographical location at the centre of the world’s oceans, linking the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean and cooling over half of total ocean volume by 2°C; and secondly to the fact that a large proportion of the 50% of total anthropogenic CO2 which is absorbed by the oceans is absorbed by the waters of the Southern Ocean, which are cold but low in marine phytoplankton. Today these natural mechanisms risk being disturbed by climate upheavals linked to human activity. In order to gain a better understanding of exactly what is happening, the SOCLIM team, led by Stéphane Blain (LOM, UPMC-CNRS), Hervé Claustre (LOV, UPMC-CNRS) and Sabrina Speich (LMD, ENS-CNRS-UPMC-Ecole Polytechnique), is deploying a new generation of cutting-edge instruments.

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Collecting never-before-available climate change data from the Southern Ocean

2019 conferences

The ice sea sentinels and climate change

Soil: an overlooked ally in the fight against global warming

The evolution of humanitarian response to the climate crisis

2018 conferences

Permafrost: what are the consequences for the climate?

Climate change: mobilising all actors to advance research

Antarctica, the indicator of climate change

Sustainability: which role do scientists have to play in the fight against climate change?

How does the way we anticipate a future under climate change impact present decision-making?

The surprising archives of the Brazilian tropical forest

The polar regions are warming. Why should we be concerned?

2017 conferences

Exploiting data to explore recent climate trends

Will the IPCC save the planet?

Climate change: what is the situation today?

Climate change: what impact on the survival of the world’s coral reefs?

Climate Change : The ocean, our unsung ally

Ice Memory: the ice library for future generations

Can the Pacific Islands still be saved from the threats of climate change?

How does climate change alter the risk of extreme weather events?

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