Fisheries Management

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Trawling
  • Fishing Vessels
  • Fishing Industry
  • Traditional Fishing
  • Fishing Business

Fisheries Management

Header Banner

Fisheries Management

  • Home
  • Trawling
  • Fishing Vessels
  • Fishing Industry
  • Traditional Fishing
  • Fishing Business
Trawling
Home›Trawling›Paris Agreement will not be concluded without urgent action on oceans

Paris Agreement will not be concluded without urgent action on oceans

By Bridget Becker
November 4, 2021
0
0

Credit: Pixabay / CC0 public domain

Researchers at Plymouth University have played a key role in new research highlighting how action to tackle climate change and achieve the Paris Agreement will only succeed if the ocean is fully taken into account.

The study, published in the journal Aquatic conservation, is addressed directly to executives attending the COP26 conference in Glasgow.

It was prepared by the International State of the Ocean Program (IPSO), a collaboration of scientists including professor of marine biology Jason Hall-Spencer and professor of oceanography Chris Reid.

In their report, the researchers say the role of the ocean in mitigating and exacerbating climate change is understood by scientists but largely ignored by politicians.

They point out that the ocean bears the heaviest burden in terms of climate change mitigation, absorbing more than 90 percent of the excess heat produced by global warming, compared to only about 3 percent absorbed by the earth.

It is also the largest carbon sink on Earth, causing damaging acidification of the oceans that erodes the ocean’s ability to function and creates feedback loops that can exacerbate climate change.

Calling on world leaders to take urgent action to protect the ocean, lead author Professor Dan Laffoley said:

“There is simply no time to waste. The changes we have already made to the ocean system will last for centuries and worsen the climate crisis. Anything we can do now to help the ocean withstand climate assault It will help us in turn. Protecting the oceans is a matter of human survival. “

The report is the latest prepared by IPSO with the aim of inspiring international collaboration and action to protect the ocean.

Professor Hall-Spencer, one of the world’s foremost experts on the impacts of ocean acidification, fishing and warming, is one of 16 scientists advising IPSO. He said:

“Warming oceans fuel tropical cyclones and hurricanes, intensifying the water cycle, resulting in increasingly intense precipitation, stronger winds and larger storms. This in turn increases the number of natural disasters, their intensity and their impact on humanity. Addressing the climate emergency is essential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as this will slow the rate of ocean warming, oxygen loss and ocean acidification. Urgent action is also needed to rebuild the resilience of marine life with significant reductions in damaging practices such as whaling, commercial trawling, overfishing and sewage pollution. “

Professor Reid is also a member of the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey group of the Marine Biological Association and is part of the core group that advises IPSO. He added:

“In the roughly three decades since 1986, the heat content of the ocean has accelerated, increasing eight times faster than the previous three decades. The consequences of this rapid change have been enormous, with more heat waves on land and in the ocean, forest fires, melting permafrost and ice, and higher water content in the atmosphere leading to intense flooding on all continents of the world. Sea level is also rising rapidly as a result expansion due to higher temperatures and increasing inputs from melting ice.

“What all of this shows is that we can no longer forget the ocean, its ecosystems and carbon storage systems; they are essential to human survival and in need of international protection and restoration. increased. ”


Scientists join call for major shift in understanding to protect the ocean


More information:
Dan Laffoley et al, The Forgotten Ocean: Why COP26 must call for much greater ambition and urgency to deal with changing oceans, Aquatic conservation: marine and freshwater ecosystems (2021). DOI: 10.1002 / aqc.3751

Provided by the University of Plymouth

Quote: Study: The Paris Agreement will not be concluded without urgent action on the oceans (2021, 4 November) retrieved on 4 November 2021 from https://phys.org/news/2021-11-paris-agreement-urgent -ocean-action.html

This document is subject to copyright. Other than fair use for private study or research purposes, no part may be reproduced without written permission. The content is provided for information only.

Related posts:

  1. Pollock costs in Alaska might climb as manufacturing slows
  2. Carrie Symonds-backed wellness group says fish ‘are in ache’
  3. World’s first floating offshore wind farm in Fukushima fails to disappoint 3.11 survivors
  4. Combat towards floating oyster farms flares up once more as SC Invoice may halt summer time harvest | Information
Tagsclimate changemarine life

Recent Posts

  • The dangerous amount of sleep the actors in the deadliest take actually get
  • French missile tests put lives of Irish fishermen at risk, industry says
  • Hull marks 40 years since the end of the Falklands War – in pictures
  • State-of-the-art fishing vessel navigation simulator launched in… – Donegal Daily
  • Fuel prices and cheap shrimp cripple Louisiana’s shrimp industry, still recovering from Ida | New

Archives

  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021

Categories

  • Fishing Business
  • Fishing Industry
  • Fishing Vessels
  • Traditional Fishing
  • Trawling

Recent Posts

  • The dangerous amount of sleep the actors in the deadliest take actually get
  • French missile tests put lives of Irish fishermen at risk, industry says
  • Hull marks 40 years since the end of the Falklands War – in pictures
  • State-of-the-art fishing vessel navigation simulator launched in… – Donegal Daily
  • Fuel prices and cheap shrimp cripple Louisiana’s shrimp industry, still recovering from Ida | New

Archives

  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021

Categories

  • Fishing Business
  • Fishing Industry
  • Fishing Vessels
  • Traditional Fishing
  • Trawling
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy