Pollution and climate change pose a serious threat to coastal and marine environments. Coral reefs, the diverse underwater ecosystems that provide valuable habitat and serve as a spawning ground for a large variety of species, are particularly vulnerable to changes in the marine ecosystem.
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The mangrove forests, seagrass beds and thousand-year-old coral reefs of Cuba play host to rare, vulnerable species and commercial fish alike.
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Nuclear techniques can help countries achieve several of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) or to track their progress towards the achievement of these targets.
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The ocean and its wildlife are strangled in plastic. About 10% of the 100 million tonnes of plastic that the world produces every year ends up in the ocean. This debris poses a threat to animals, which ingest it or get entangled in it, and also to people who eat the fish contaminated by the chemicals that the debris releases.
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The IAEA is participating in side events at the Paris Climate Conference, COP21, over the next two weeks, and is also hosting an exhibit in the One UN Exhibit Area themed “Sustainable Industries and Energy.”
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