COP15 Biodiversity Webinar: Fish are Carbon Engineers

Fish, like whales and plankton, are keystones of the ocean’s biological pump, the system constantly at work producing energy and capturing and storing excess carbon from the atmosphere. Effective fisheries management can help to conserve that system and in turn combat climate change and protect biodiversity. Governments meeting at the Convention on Biological Diversity must acknowledge and prioritise ecosystem-based fisheries management as good carbon management and essential to biodiversity protection. 

Representatives from civil society, government and the scientific community will discuss the evidence in support of fisheries management as carbon management, and the opportunities and challenges for maximising this to deliver on biodiversity and climate action commitments.

Panelists:

Dr. William Cheung - IPCC Lead Author and Professor and Director, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia 
Dr. Emma Cavan - Research Fellow, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London
Isabella Lovin - former Deputy Prime Minister and former Environment Minister of Sweden
Ska Keller - Member of European Parliament, European Greens/EFA

Live interpretation to Spanish and French will be provided.