The costs of climate change almost double if the impact on the oceans is also included in the calculations. ‘If we don't put a price on the damage that climate change causes to the oceans, it will remain invisible to key decision-makers,’ says environmental economist Bernardo Bastien-Olvera.
Everything we do in the high sea, risks causing damage that cannot be repaired. That's what a group of leading scientists say in a recent article published in the journal Nature. They say it's damaging biodiversity, affecting the climate, and creating huge inequalities in how resources are shared. It is time, they write, that we decide to save the ocean.
