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Navigating the Future VI: The Ocean's role in addressing global crises

Our Ocean plays a key role in enabling life on Earth, and is increasingly also playing a key role in helping us to address the global crises we are facing. It is critical for us to better understand both of these roles, and the impact that playing them has on the Ocean in turn. EMB Policy Brief No. 13 'Navigating the Future VI: The Ocean's role in addressing global crises’ presents the main research and policy recommendations to help us to take that understanding forward.

EMB Policy Brief No. 13 provides an overview of the ways in which the Ocean science can help us address the biodiversity, fresh water and climate crises we currently face. It summarises the main messages and recommendations from the flagship EMB marine science policy foresight Position Paper No. 28 “Navigating the Future VI: Placing the Ocean within the wider Earth system”. It also provides a short overview of the full Navigating the Future publication series, its aims and achievements to date. Aligning with Navigating the Future VI, this Policy Brief covers the four main themes of Ocean and PeopleOcean and Climate; Ocean and Fresh Water; and Ocean and Biodiversity. It presents the main research and policy recommendations under these themes.

You can find the news item about the document launch here, infographic summaries of the research and policy recommendations per theme here, and more about the Navigating the Future VI Working Group here

Note that these infographics are licenced under CC BY-NC 4.0 and credit should be given to Martijn van Overbruggen, WIM Ontwerpers when re-publishing.