In this podcast, recorded in Montreal during COP15, we look at how central biodiversity is to Mexico, its people, culture and economy. The podcast focuses on the ocean, and Mexico’s membership of the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy.
In June some 40 salmon fishing organizations and observers to the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization called on the Norwegian Prime Minister
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Ocean health is declining and could cost the global economy USD 400 billion (EUR 328.1 billion) annually by 2050 if threats such as overfishing, plastic pollution, acidification, and ocean warming are not addressed, delegates heard at this year’s North Atlantic Seafood Forum (NASF).
A healthy ocean, however, could bring a much brighter future, according to Peter Haugen, the co-chair of the High Level Panel for Sustainable Ocean Economy (Ocean Panel) expert group, who spoke during the 16th edition of the seafood business conference.
“The ocean is our lifeblood; our life source. It sustains us, with more than three billion people relying on food from the ocean as their main source of protein and nutrition. We also know that the ocean stabilizes the climate, Haugen said. We would have had a totally different global warming situation if it wasn’t there and working in the way that it does.