The Impacts of Climate Change and Related Changes in the Atmosphere on the Oceans: A Technical Abstract of the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment

This technical provides a synthesis of the information presented in the first World Ocean Assessment and does not introduce any new material or interpretation of the information presented in that Assessment. It is based upon the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment (first World Ocean Assessment), which was released in January 2016, and, in particular, upon the summary of that Assessment, which was approved by the General Assembly in December 2015.