Eight urgent, fundamental and simultaneous steps needed to restore ocean health, and the consequences for humanity and the planet of inaction or delay

• Published in: Aquatic conservation Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 194 - 208
• Main Authors: Laffoley, Dan, Baxter, John M., Amon, Diva J., Currie, Duncan E.J., Downs, Craig A., Hall‐Spencer, Jason M., Harden‐Davies, Harriet, Page, Richard, Reid, Chris P., Roberts, Callum M., Rogers, Alex, Thiele, Thorsten, Sheppard, Charles R.C., Sumaila, Rashid U., Woodall, Lucy C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2020
• Subjects: Acidification; Adaptation; Carbon capture and storage; Carbon sequestration; Climate change; coasts; Data retrieval; decision making; deep‐sea mining; Destructive fishing; developing countries; Earth; Ecological function; finance; Financing; Fisheries; fishing; funding; Global warming; Governance; heat; High seas; Life support systems; Marine pollution; Marine protected areas; mining; Mitigation; MPAs; Nutrients; ocean; oceans; Overfishing; Oxygen; Oxygen production; pollution; Pollution control; Protected areas; Protection; scientific research; Sea pollution; social welfare; Surface temperature; sustainability

The ocean crisis is urgent and central to human wellbeing and life on Earth; past and current activities are damaging the planet's main life support system for future generations. We are witnessing an increase in ocean heat, disturbance, acidification, bio‐invasions and nutrients, and reducing...