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Benefits of the Paris Agreement to ocean life, economies, and people

The Paris Agreement aims to mitigate the potential impacts of climate change on ecological and social systems. Using an ensemble of climate-marine ecosystem and economic models, we explore the effects of implementing the Agreement on fish, fishers, and seafood consumers worldwide. We find that imple...

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Autores principales: Sumaila, U. Rashid, Tai, Travis C., Lam, Vicky W. Y., Cheung, William W. L., Bailey, Megan, Cisneros-Montemayor, Andrés M., Chen, Oai Li, Gulati, Sumeet S.
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Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6392762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30820450
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau3855
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author Sumaila, U. Rashid
Tai, Travis C.
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Cheung, William W. L.
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Gulati, Sumeet S.
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description The Paris Agreement aims to mitigate the potential impacts of climate change on ecological and social systems. Using an ensemble of climate-marine ecosystem and economic models, we explore the effects of implementing the Agreement on fish, fishers, and seafood consumers worldwide. We find that implementing the Agreement could protect millions of metric tons in annual worldwide catch of top revenue-generating fish species, as well as billions of dollars annually of fishers’ revenues, seafood workers’ income, and household seafood expenditure. Further, our analysis predicts that 75% of maritime countries would benefit from this protection, and that ~90% of this protected catch would occur within the territorial waters of developing countries. Thus, implementing the Paris Agreement could prove to be crucial for the future of the world’s ocean ecosystems and economies.
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spelling pubmed-63927622019-02-28 Benefits of the Paris Agreement to ocean life, economies, and people Sumaila, U. Rashid Tai, Travis C. Lam, Vicky W. Y. Cheung, William W. L. Bailey, Megan Cisneros-Montemayor, Andrés M. Chen, Oai Li Gulati, Sumeet S. Sci Adv Research Articles The Paris Agreement aims to mitigate the potential impacts of climate change on ecological and social systems. Using an ensemble of climate-marine ecosystem and economic models, we explore the effects of implementing the Agreement on fish, fishers, and seafood consumers worldwide. We find that implementing the Agreement could protect millions of metric tons in annual worldwide catch of top revenue-generating fish species, as well as billions of dollars annually of fishers’ revenues, seafood workers’ income, and household seafood expenditure. Further, our analysis predicts that 75% of maritime countries would benefit from this protection, and that ~90% of this protected catch would occur within the territorial waters of developing countries. Thus, implementing the Paris Agreement could prove to be crucial for the future of the world’s ocean ecosystems and economies. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2019-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6392762/ /pubmed/30820450 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau3855 Text en Copyright © 2019 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gulati, Sumeet S.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6392762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30820450
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