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How the world's largest seafood companies can help tackle climate change

Business Green

Seafood firms can reduce their impact on climate and the oceans - and in doing so can ensure they have a long-term thriving business that delivers healthy and sustainable seafood to millions, writes Nigel Topping, UN High Level Champion for Climate Action at COP26. Seafood is big business and demand is going up.

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UN report: Ocean-based climate action could deliver a fifth of emissions cuts needed to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C

Envirotec Magazine

Our future health and prosperity are closely linked to the state of the ocean,” said Erna Solberg, co-chair of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy and Prime Minister of Norway. . The ambition of SeaBOS members is to increase the production of healthy and sustainable seafood, and to improve ocean health overall.

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Climate change is making it more dangerous to eat certain fish

Grist

It may not be a cataclysmic turning point in the climate crisis, but global warming has officially come for your fish tacos. That leaves us with mystifying health advice like, “eat one to two cans of tuna per week but no more,” or, for pregnant women, “stay away from big fish like swordfish, but do eat cod occasionally.”.

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Ocean Conservation: Ocean Acidification and the Impacts of Fish Migration

Green Tech Challenge

We have written, here , that ocean acidification disrupts the growth and productive health of some sea life, the most vulnerable being shellfish larvae, and developing fish. The Paris Climate Agreement seeks to restrict global warming to 1.5 The ocean has experienced a 26% pH drop in the last century. million metric tons.

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Biden’s Call to Increase LNG Export Capacity on Gulf Coast is Tantamount To Sarah Palin’s Call to ‘Drill Baby Drill’ According to Environmental Advocates

DeSmogBlog

I’m worried about the health impacts the plant might have on my family,” Nicole told me. Anne Rolfes, founder of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade questioned what the project would do to the seafood industry. On top of that, they are now at risk of being displaced by the very industry that is accelerating global warming.