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Into the blue: the role of the Ocean in climate policy; Europe needs to clarify the balance between protection and use
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Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
Abstract Since net zero targets have become a keystone of climate policy, more thought is being given to actively removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while continuing to drastically reduce emissions. The ocean plays a major role in regulating the global climate by absorbing a large proportion of an... view more
Since net zero targets have become a keystone of climate policy, more thought is being given to actively removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while continuing to drastically reduce emissions. The ocean plays a major role in regulating the global climate by absorbing a large proportion of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. As the challenges of land-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches are increasingly recognised, the ocean may become the new "blue" frontier for carbon removal and storage strategies in the EU and beyond. However, the ocean is not an "open frontier"; rather, it is a domain of overlapping and sometimes conflicting rights and obligations. There is a tension between the sovereign right of states to use ocean resources within their exclusive economic zones and the international obligation to protect the ocean as a global commons. The EU and its Member States need to clarify the balance between the protection and use paradigms in ocean governance when considering treating the ocean as an enhanced carbon sink or storage site. Facilitating linkages between the ongoing review of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the establishment of the Carbon Removal Certification Framework could help pave the way for debate about trade-offs and synergies in marine ecosystem protection and use. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
climate policy; seas; environmental protection; climate protection; environmental damage
Classification
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Ecology, Environment
Free Keywords
global; Meeresnutzung; Meeresumwelt; Weltmeere; Umweltgefährdungen; Umweltschutzmaßnahmen; Umweltstandards; Kohlendioxid-Abscheidung und -Lagerung
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
7 p.
Series
SWP Comment, 12/2023
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18449/2023C12
ISSN
2747-5107
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications