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Ocean-based measures for climate action

  • Alexandre K. Magnan
  • , Raphaël Billé
  • , Laurent Bopp
  • , Vasiliki I. Chalastani
  • , William W.L. Cheung
  • , Carlos M. Duarte
  • , Ruth D. Gates
  • , Jochen Hinkel
  • , Jean Olivier Irisson
  • , Elizabeth Mcleod
  • , Fiorenza Micheli
  • , Jack J. Middelburg
  • , Andreas Oschlies
  • , Hans Otto Pörtner
  • , Greg H. Rau
  • , Phillip Williamson
  • , Jean Pierre Gattuso
  • Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI)
  • The Pacific Community (SPC)
  • Sciences Po
  • Université de La Rochelle
  • CNRS
  • Université PSL
  • University of British Columbia
  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
  • UiT The Arctic University of Norway
  • University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • Stanford University
  • Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
  • Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Natural Environment Research Council
  • University of East Anglia
  • Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation

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Abstract

Current emission reduction pledges under the 2015 Paris Agreement are insufficient to keep global temperature “well below +2°C” in 2100 relative to pre-industrial levels and to reach targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Increased political ambition is therefore required, as well as enhanced efforts in terms of both mitigation and ecosystem and human adaptation. There is growing evidence highlighting both the role the ocean plays in mitigating anthropogenic climate change (i.e., absorption of atmospheric heat and anthropogenic carbon), and the cascading consequences on its chemistry and physics (i.e., ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, sea-level rise), ecosystems and ecosystem services. In such a context, a critical question arises: what are the ocean-based opportunities for climate action?
In other words, what is the potential of the ocean and its ecosystems to reduce the causes of climate change and its impacts?
This document summarises the main findings of The Ocean Solutions Initiative1
that assessed the potential of 13 ocean-based measures.
Original languageEnglish
TypePolicy brief
PublisherPresses de Sciences Po
Number of pages4
Volume06
Publication statusPublished - 2018

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action

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  • Ocean solutions to address climate change and its effects on marine ecosystems

    Gattuso, J. P., Magnan, A. K., Bopp, L., Cheung, W. W. L., Duarte, C. M., Hinkel, J., Mcleod, E., Micheli, F., Oschlies, A., Williamson, P., Billé, R., Chalastani, V. I., Gates, R. D., Irisson, J. O., Middelburg, J. J., Pörtner, H. O. & Rau, G. H., 4 Oct 2018, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 5, OCT, 337.

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