Feds’ climate solutions must include our oceans

Ocean-based climate solutions have been identified as a major opportunity for mitigating global emissions, with the potential to reduce global greenhouse gases by nearly four billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year in 2030, and by more than 11 billion tonnes per year in 2050.

Canada, with the longest coastline in the world and a maritime economy tied to three major ocean basins and the Great Lakes, is ideally positioned to harness marine industries to improve existing climate plans.Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY BRENT DANCEY

May 10, 2021

On April 22, the United States formally reasserted itself in the global climate conversation with a

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