This France-based crew is sailing to Alaska to show the impacts of climate change

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They’re sailing from France to Alaska by way of Greenland. Their goal: showing people the impacts of climate change. This is the epic journey of the UNU MONDO Expédition.

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00:00The purpose of our expedition is to show people the scale and the speed of the changes here

00:20already impacting the Arctic.

00:50The drifting buoys we deploy for Meteor France are part of a global network that measure

01:01atmospheric pressure, water temperature and map sea currents.

01:07This is all vital data for global weather modelling.

01:20We met local fishermen, hunters, politics, glaciologists, geologists, archaeologists

01:38and they all agree on climate change.

01:41It's impacting their work and their everyday life.

01:45For example, there is less and less sea ice, there is more and more vegetation, the seas

01:51are not changing and the ice sheet is retreating faster and faster every year.

02:12Some of them see it as an opportunity with the creation of new jobs in the mining industry,

02:19in the tourism industry, in the agriculture, but some of them see it as a drawback with

02:26the closing of the fisheries, with the fact that it's harder and harder to fish and to

02:32hunt and with also more and more tourists coming here, this can be disturbing for very

02:39small villages here in Greenland.

02:53We're here to show people the impacts of climate change, not by numbers of plus 1.2 degrees

03:00in so many years, but by the stories of the people, the scientists and the locals that

03:06see these impacts first hand.

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