7 reasons why the G7 must tackle the crisis in our oceans

The document identifies seven critical threats to the oceans—plastic pollution, deep-sea mining, acidification, warming, de-oxygenation, biodiversity loss, and habitat degradation—and calls on G7 nations to support a global innovation engine for marine stewardship.

• G7 countries and emerging middle classes are primarily responsible for the state of the oceans, with thirteen companies, mostly based in G7 nations or Europe, controlling up to 40% of the most valuable and largest fish stocks.
• The oceans face seven interconnected challenges: plastic pollution, which may exceed fish populations by 2050; deep-sea mining for rare earth elements; ocean acidification caused by carbon dioxide emissions occurring faster than in 66 million years; ocean warming, having absorbed 10 times more heat than the atmosphere; de-oxygenation leading to 'ocean dead zones'; biodiversity loss, exemplified by 93% bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef as of April; and the destruction of 30-35% of critical marine habitats.
• To address these crises, Future Earth is establishing an Oceans Knowledge Action Network and urges G7 countries to support a global innovation engine for marine stewardship to link research directly with policy needs.

APA

Broadgate, W. (2016). 7 reasons why the G7 must tackle the crisis in our oceans. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/stories/nature-and-biodiversity/7-reasons-why-the-g7-must-tackle-the-oceans-in-crisis/

Chicago

Broadgate, Wendy. 7 reasons why the G7 must tackle the crisis in our oceans. World Economic Forum, 2016. https://www.weforum.org/stories/nature-and-biodiversity/7-reasons-why-the-g7-must-tackle-the-oceans-in-crisis/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{broadgate2016reasons, author = {Broadgate, Wendy}, title = {{7 reasons why the G7 must tackle the crisis in our oceans}}, publisher = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2016}, month = may, url = {https://www.weforum.org/stories/nature-and-biodiversity/7-reasons-why-the-g7-must-tackle-the-oceans-in-crisis/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }