Climate Change

Going diving in the tropics? Don’t eat the reef fish!

September 21, 2017 | Publication Highlights, Climate Change, Fisheries

Reducing tourist consumption of reef fish is critical for Palau’s ocean sustainability, finds a new Nippon Foundation-UBC Nereus Program study published today in Marine Policy.

While climate change is expected to lead to sharp declines in Palau’s reefs, the best tourism management strategy includes a more than 70 per cent reduction in reef fish consumption by visitors. These findings are highly relevant for sustainable development in small island developing states under climate change.

Adaptation strategies to climate change in marine systems

September 11, 2017 | Publication Highlights, Climate Change

Climate change and human activity have pressing impacts on the state of our ocean, threatening the integrity of marine ecosystems themselves as well as the services they provide to human communities. Given the inevitable current and future effects of climate change, adaptation by both physical and human systems is crucial.

Warming waters will leave fish gasping for air and shrinking in size

August 21, 2017 | Publication Highlights, Climate Change

Fish are expected to shrink in size by 20 to 30 per cent if ocean temperatures continue to climb due to climate change. A new study by researchers at the Nippon Foundation-UBC Nereus Program provides a deeper explanation of why fish are expected to decline in size.

Adaptive capacity: from assessment to action in coastal social-ecological systems

July 6, 2017 | Publication Highlights, Climate Change, Coastal and Indigenous

Coastal ecosystems are undergoing complex changes caused by both social and ecological drivers occurring at varying scales and speeds, which ultimately act as either risks or opportunities to coastal social-ecological systems. The assessment of adaptive capacity of coastal ecosystems is crucial in understanding the extent to which they will be able to accept and adapt to these social and biophysical drivers.

Side event at the UN Ocean Conference

June 26, 2017 | Latest News, Climate Change, Sustainable Development Goals

The United Nations Ocean Conference to “Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14” was held in New York at the UNHQ between June 5 and 9, 2017. On Friday June 9, the Nereus Program hosted a side event, ‘The Role of the Oceans in Sustainability: Benefits of Achieving SDG 14 for all Sustainable Development Goals,’ at the conference. This side event introduced recent research that evaluates how achieving ocean SDG 14 targets contributes to- and in some cases is required for – the achievement of other SDG targets.

Climate change and marine fisheries: Least developed countries top global index of vulnerability

June 22, 2017 | Publication Highlights, Climate Change, Fisheries

Developing nations, which have contributed little to the issue of climate change, are likely to experience reduced livelihood opportunities and emerging dietary nutrient deficiencies as a result of climate change impacts on fisheries.

Global spatial distribution of marine species and diversity in the context of climate change

May 11, 2017 | Policy Forum, Climate Change, Ecology and Biodiversity

The world is intuitively divided by the existence of recognizable, bounded units of landscape with characteristic climatic regimes and land cover that drives the distribution of existing life on earth. On a global scale, terrestrial ecosystems are grouped into major biomes such as boreal forest, savannah, desert, tundra and grasslands, each with distinct climates, landscapes, species, and vegetation.

POLICY BRIEF: Adjacency: How legal precedent, ecological connectivity, and Traditional Knowledge inform our understanding of proximity

April 4, 2017 | Latest News, Policy Briefs, Climate Change, High Seas

Pursuant to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), all States have customary and treaty obligations to protect and preserve the marine environment and its resources. Several countries have expressed an interest in the question of whether States could properly assert priority over the conservation of areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) adjacent to their Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs). The term “adjacency”, with respect to maritime coastal boundaries, refers to a State’s spatial proximity with the open ocean and deep sea in ABNJ.

Climate change could increase fishing fuel consumption

March 16, 2017 | Policy Forum, Climate Change, Fisheries

We know that fuel use contributes to climate change, but in a vicious circle, climate change could also increase fuel use in fishing. This is due to fish shifting their distributions due to warming waters. With this increased use of fuel and the increasing price, small-scale and artisanal fishers will have a harder time sustaining livelihoods and feeding their families under climate change.

Climate change-contaminant interactions in marine food webs

March 3, 2017 | Publication Highlights, Climate Change, Ecology and Biodiversity

This paper proposes that climate change will alter the effects of pollutants in marine food webs by either directly increasing contaminant exposure (for instance due to receding ice caps), or making organisms more vulnerable to other climate change impacts. It discusses two main classes of contaminants that can affect the health of marine organisms: fat-soluble contaminants known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), and protein-binding contaminants such as methylmercury (MeHg).

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Going diving in the tropics? Don’t eat the reef fish!

Adaptation strategies to climate change in marine systems

Warming waters will leave fish gasping for air and shrinking in size

Climate change and marine fisheries: Least developed countries top global index of vulnerability

Global spatial distribution of marine species and diversity in the context of climate change

POLICY BRIEF: Adjacency: How legal precedent, ecological connectivity, and Traditional Knowledge inform our understanding of proximity

Climate change could increase fishing fuel consumption

Climate change-contaminant interactions in marine food webs

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