Ocean-based solutions can play an important role in the fight against climate change, according to a new scientific report published last week at the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit in New York City, U.S.A.
The report, “The Ocean as a Solution to Climate Change: Five Opportunities for Action,” written by a consortium of scientsts affiliated with the World Resources Institute, begins with the dramatic statement, “The ocean is on the front lines of the battle against climate change.”
With the oceans getting warmer and getting more acidic, coral reefs are dying, the location and size of commercial fish stocks are shifting, and the ocean’s long-term ability “ to provide food, livelihoods, and safe coastal habitation on which billions of people depend” will be jeopardized, the report found…
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