This publication is aimed at helping IUCN's members to understand the scope and the mechanisms of debt conversion, and to spot opportunities for their own action in this important field.
An overview of the ecology and values of coral reefs, and of the global changes which are threatening reefs and the societies and species which depend on them. Focuses particularly on those changes expected to occur due to global warming, and describes the programme to establish a long-term monitoring system of coastal and near-shore phenomena related to climate change.
