This week – and the next week – I am in Pyeong Chang – a
mountain town in the Republic of Korea, covering the 12th Conference of Parties on Biological Diversity (CBD COP). Posting here my views
on what’s happening at the venue. You
can also read my news articles from the COP here.
Two years ago, one morning I stood on the beach of Calangute – a coastal town in western India’s
Goa and watched rows of fishing boats returning to the shore. Each of these
boats had, wrapped in a large net, the night’s harvest from the ocean. As the
fishermen emptied their nets, the sand was instantly covered with a silver
carpet of thousands of fish. ‘Blessed wealth of a benevolent sea god’– I remembered
whispering to myself.
Today, I am reading a UN scientific report that shows that the blessing and wealth of the ocean is under severe threats, thanks to a
rapidly rising level of acidification of the ocean water.
