We would like to bring to your attention the recently published „Kiel Declaration on Ocean Deoxygenation" in which participants of the International Ocean Deoxygenation Conference (https://conference.sfb754.de/event/1) urgently call for more marine and climate protection as "the ocean is losing its breath." The document is one of the outcomes of the conference held on 2-7 September 2018 in Kiel, Germany. More than 300 scientists from 33 countries attended the conference to discuss the decline of oxygen, its causes and consequence. At the conclusion of the conference, the scientists published the „Kiel Declaration". Everyone who is concerned about ocean deoxygenation and agrees to the declaration is welcome to sign to show their support. You can read and sign the declaration by following this link: https://www.ocean-oxygen.org/declaration

The International Ocean Deoxygenation Conference was organised by the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 754) which addresses the threat of ocean deoxygenation, its possible impact on tropical oxygen minimum zones and implications for the global climate-biogeochemistry system. The conference brought together the global scientific community working on Ocean Deoxygenation and aimed to identify drivers and consequences of ocean deoxygenation in the past, present and future. IOCCP was represented by Véronique Garçon and Maciej Telszewski.