Climate Change Solution: Ocean Protection ft. Nancy Knowlton

How to Solve Climate Change

Today you will learn from expert guest Emily Landis about blue carbon, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.

Timestamps:

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:50) - What is ocean and seafloor protection?
• (01:24) - Why would ocean and seafloor protection help to solve climate change?
• (02:02) - Why would ocean and seafloor protection not help to solve climate change?
• (02:27) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
• (03:21) - How does ocean and seafloor protection work?
• (04:01) - What innovation or policy is needed for this to be an effective solution?
• (04:56) - Recommended resources
• (05:49) - Top skills to learn for solving climate change
• (06:21) - Final Recommendations
• (06:48) - Activity

Dr. Nancy Knowlton is the former Sant Chair for Marine Science at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and a scientific leader of the Census of Marine Life. She wrote the book, Citizens of the Sea, to celebrate the ten years of the Census. She founded the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego. Knowlton has devoted her life to studying, celebrating, and striving to protect the multitude of life-forms that call the sea home. She lives with her family in Maine.

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