COP26 failed to address ocean acidification, but the law of the seas means states must protect the world's oceans
- Written by Karen Scott, Professor in Law, University of Canterbury
Shutterstock/Richard WhitcombeThe COP26 summit may come to be regarded as a failure or an important milestone, but it certainly failed to address the “other” climate change problem: ocean acidification.
With the exception of rising sea levels, climate change impacts on the oceans have been treated as a peripheral matter at global...
