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
COP26 failed to address ocean acidification, but the law of the seas means states must protect the world's oceansShutterstock/Richard Whitcombe

The 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...

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