annual growth declined to a moderate percent during the period although doubledigit growth still occurred in a small number of individual countries particularly in africa from to in the united nations general assembly discussed the topic of the effects of climate change on oceans during the eighteenth un informal consultative process on oceans and the law of the sea oceans action day has been part of the official programme of the conference of parties cop to the united nations framework convention on climate change unfccc since cop in at cop the presiding government of fiji not only supported this event but also launched the oceans pathway partnership to support the inclusion of oceans in the official negotiations on climate