According to projections made by the United Nations (UN), on 31 October 2011 there will be seven billion people sharing the planet — at a time when the biota is under increasing pressure from climate change and other environmental threats. Read Kerri Smith’s article We Are Seven Billion where she explores how researchers are trying to identify the geographic hotspots where people and climate change are on a collision course.

Ocean Acidification and Climate Change: synergies and challenges of addressing both under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

This article builds upon and identifies policy linkages between ocean acidification and the UNFCCC. It outlines
ways in which ocean acidification can be addressed and scenarios are offered for possible common solutions to mitigate and adapt to ocean acidification and climate change through the processes and mechanisms of the UNFCCC.

Our web-based markets toolkit provides decision-makers and researchers and interested members of the public with an overview of the ways in which economic (market-based) instruments and policy can be used in the marine environment to incentivise private sector adaptation to climate change. 
The toolkit outlines a number of potential adaptation options in the marine environment under the following four broad categories:
(1) fisheries management, (2) conservation management, (3) institutional arrangement, and (4) adaptation research.

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Presented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Climate Services, the interactive map highlights significant regional climate events in 2010,  in Australia and globally, that were influenced by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).