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Webinar: Governing Ocean Acidification

July 22, 2019 12:45 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Speaker: Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb (Climate Energy College, University of Melbourne) Ocean acidification is increasingly recognized as a potentially devastating threat to marine ecosystems and the goods and services they provide. Despite this, no existing multilateral environmental agreement (MEA) explicitly requires a response to it and the issue remains largely unaddressed in international environmental law and policy. The problem of ocean acidification does not sit comfortably within the mandate of any existing MEA, especially in regard to its mitigation. Many scholars and... View Article