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Harnessing the Ocean’s Power to Combat the Climate Crisis

Law Columbia

Photo: Guss B on Unsplash Earth Day is an opportunity to celebrate the awe-inspiring wonders on this planet — a place full of biodiversity hotspots, from lush rainforests to scenic mountain ranges, home to rich, endemic species. International agreements, such as the Paris Agreement, and domestic legislation in the U.S.

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Falling Walls 2023: How open science and systems thinking can save the planet 

Frontiers

As Lars Peter Riishøjgaard , director of the Global Greenhouse Gas Watch, said: “We are not treating this as a scientific problem, which is what the text of the Paris Agreement actually says that we should.” This is where scientists need to improve the precision defining these planetary uncertainties.

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