UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Seminar 7: International governance of UN Ocean Decade-China's perspective
UN Ocean Decade, particular in the context of the present challenging world full of uncertainty, provides the chance to re-think, re-shape and further enhance the global ocean governance. Year 2025 marks the half way of the UN Ocean Decade when it is vital to review and re-calibrate our global efforts and strategy against the UN 2030 Sustainable Goals.
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UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Seminar 6: Monitoring, Reporting and Verification for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal
Right now, COP30 is pushing hard to accelerate progress on climate action, carbon sequestration science is showing impressive, groundbreaking results, and the carbon removal market is breaking through the $10 billion mark (up from $430 million in spring 2023).The planet needs urgent climate action, but how can we know that specific carbon sequestration projects are actually bearing fruit?Monitoring,...
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UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Seminar 5: Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement for Negative Emissions and its Environmental Impacts
Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) is a promising approach for atmospheric carbon dioxide removal. This study investigates wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) as effective sites for OAE by adding olivine-rich minerals during the aerobic treatment process. Laboratory experiments demonstrated that olivine dissolution in aerobically treated wastewater occurred approximately 20 times faster than in seawater,...
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