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Advancing Ocean Climate Action at COP27

Ocean Conservancy

I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. We focused on the following priorities : The Ocean in the Climate Change Dialogue.

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Analysis: Moving the dial on ocean-based CO2 removal

A Greener Life

Two reports published in the US look seriously at the practicalities and responsibilities of altering the ocean to tackle the climate crisis. Yet the technologies needed to do this, collectively known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), remains nascent, underfunded and largely unregulated. The ocean as a carbon sink.

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Frontiers eBook releases: August 2021

Frontiers

Animal Welfare Assessment: Edition 1 Edited by Edward Narayan; Alan J Tilbrook; Alan G McElligott PDF Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience – Editor’s Pick 2021 Edited by P. All eBooks are free to download, share and distribute. Learn more about Research Topics or submit your suggestion.

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Policy News: June 28, 2021

ESA

Congress funded the DOE Office of Science at $7 billion in FY 2021. The Senate voted to overturn this rule in April 2021. Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. Committee Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-MS) ’s Regional Ocean Partnership Act ( S.1894

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Protecting the Ocean Means Protecting Communities

Ocean Conservancy

But plastics present a much broader threat to our ocean, climate and marginalized coastal communities. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean. Direct the EPA to not include harmful chemical recycling technologies in the national recycling strategy. They can’t be separated.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

The bill retains a provision from the House bill repealing section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. 6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans.

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The Roadmap That Supports a Plastics Free Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

Ocean Conservancy recognized this from the very beginning when we published our ground-breaking report Stemming the Tid e. We knew the problem of ocean plastics required collective action. That is why Ocean Conservancy was thrilled to join the U.S. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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