Featured Content: Oceans
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From SDG Academy on 2 August, 2019
Continues the discussion on specific geoengineering measures, focusing on solar radiation management and iron fertilization of the oceans. -
From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019
The global ocean connects us all and provides our livelihoods, the oxygen we breathe, and transportation, among other things. The ocean is included in SDG 14. This… -
From SDG Academy on 27 August, 2019
This lecture looks at human interaction with oceans and aquaculture, and the adverse effect it has had on marine ecosystems and well as fisheries. -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
Professor Sarah Cornell discusses the interaction between the planetary boundary processes. Earth system interactions are complex and dynamic, so that if you change one… -
From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019
The ocean has always sparked human curiosity. In the mid-20th century, people began to realize that there are limits to what humanity should do to our planet before it… -
From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019
This era of human impact on the environment and the ocean is called the Anthropocene, and the main problem is that we produce energy by burning fossil fuels and emit… -
From SDG Academy on 19 August, 2019
How can we maintain the carbon dioxide emission equilibrium through sources and sinks, and achieve the long-term temperature goal as laid out in the Paris Climate… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This lecture provides evidence for why climate change is a planetary boundary, based on temperature changes since the Industrial Revolution. We have already seen 1… -
From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019
The regulation and enforcement of the oceans is very difficult. The Law of the Sea Convention and other landmark legal instruments have brought important progress over… -
From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019
This chapter presents some amazing facts about the ocean, including that seventy percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by ocean and that the oceans provide 95… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
The planetary boundaries framework is built on our understanding of the pressures of the Earth system, along with the recognition that if we push them too far, we risk… -
From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019
Konrad Ott makes details four aspects of sustainability that are essential to any deeper understandings of it: history, ethics, concepts, politics. More than 300 years… -
From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019
Marine life adapts to the extreme and unique conditions deep in the ocean. Of the probably more than one million species in the oceans, at least four-fifths are… -
From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019
In the long run, resources will become scarcer and scarcer, but there is a possibility that resources will be recovered from the ocean. There is an abundance of seabed… -
From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019
This chapter discusses why ocean circulation is changing, the variabilities in monsoon systems, and the El Niño phenomena. Ocean circulation responds to the… -
From SDG Academy on 2 August, 2019
Discussing rising sea temperatures and levels. It relates the rise of ocean surface temperatures to the destructiveness of hurricanes. -
From SDG Academy on 12 August, 2019
The ocean drives the climate of the Earth; only in the last 800,000 years has the temperature and carbon dioxide levels of the atmosphere stayed within narrow… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
In this chapter, Emmanuel Guérin discusses the consequences of temperature increases that result from rising greenhouse gas emissions. Global warming of 4 degrees… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
In this chapter, Professor Sachs talks about the rise of the global industry with emphasis on agriculture and global production and value chains. In the 16th century, it… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter focuses on the fourth wave of globalization, or the era of ocean-based globalization, and the period between Christopher Columbia and James Watt, the… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter discusses the impacts of ocean-based globalization on competition between European imperialist empires, each trying to establish trading centers and… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
This chapter examines the governance of water resources from source to sea and how we need to transform governance to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, focusing… -
From SDG Academy on 14 January, 2020
Martin Visbeck and two other faculty members from the "One Planet, One Ocean" course discuss the Ocean Decade and answer learners' questions. -
From SDG Academy on 14 January, 2020
This live session looks at approaches to dealing with marine plastic pollution.