Patricia Ricard: The ocean is the master of climate

Patricia Ricard of the Paul Ricard Oceanographic Institute speaks with Climate&Capital's Peter McKillop about how oceans and climate change are more linked than you might think. Patricia Ricard vividly remembers the day she discovered a passion that would shape the rest of her life. “As a kid, I was surrounded by very, clever people, scientists. So as a five-year-old girl I asked, what is pollution? I didn't know what it was,” she says. At that time, her grandfather, Paul Ricard, founder of the eponymous pastis spirit, had been an early advocate…