Pour s’adapter au climat qui change, l’espèce humaine doit très vite acquérir une meilleure connaissance des To adapt to a changing climate, the human species must very quickly acquire a better understanding of the mechanisms by which the oceans react to this phenomenon. The Transforming Climate Action (TCA) program aims to develop the transformative solutions required and demonstrate their effectiveness. The initiative offers three interrelated research themes focused on the North Atlantic, which absorbs 30% of global ocean carbon. It will produce transdisciplinary studies relevant to society, in collaboration with Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups, governments and international partners, to guide actions to combat climate change in Canada.

Through more diligent and thoughtful observation of the main ocean processes at play in the North Atlantic, the initiative will temper certain major uncertainties relating to the link between the ocean and climate through, among other things, improved observation air-sea carbon fluxes, deep convection and carbon uptake by the ocean floor. Recent technological advances will make it possible to synthesize ocean data at a higher level than was previously possible, a synthesis that will directly guide climate policies.