While we believe that we can create a lot of value with ConAgra Foods, that's only going to happen if we make bold change, and we're going to continue to push for change.

Sean Connolly

Categorized in : Mergers & Acquisitions

There are a range of views in the scientific community about whether these methods are worth trying, if we stabilize the climate then there's a chance these methods will work. If we don't stabilize the climate then I don't think they have a good chance of working.

The severity and frequency of these [bleaching] events means slow-growing corals won't have time to come back, if all the coral bleaches and dies, it's no longer a coral reef. The coral skeletons are quickly colonized by algae which turns them dark in color.

[In the last three decades] coral cover went from 28% to 13%. Preliminary estimates [from last year's disaster] are saying we've lost half that amount again. To have that kind of mortality on that kind of scale is unprecedented.

Coral cover [on the Great Barrier Reef] has halved over the last... by Sean Connolly

Coral cover [on the Great Barrier Reef] has halved over the last 27 years.

We know that the inconsistency of our past performance is totally... by Sean Connolly

We know that the inconsistency of our past performance is totally unacceptable.