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Solving the Sustainability Challenges at the Food-Climate-Biodiversity Nexus #FoodSecurity #ClimateChange #Biodiversity

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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 19/06/2026
New Paper: As climate change warms our oceans, approximately 22% of straddling fish stocks are projected to shift out of national waters by 2030; @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social et al argue this redistribution makes a high seas fishing ban more urgent than ever biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1835...
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 19/03/2026
“Ghana’s fisheries are vital not only for the country’s coastal communities, but also for national and regional food security,” says #SolvingFCB's @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social a in @oceanographicmag.bsky.social
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Professor @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social speaks about how Nigerian scholars can make meaningful impacts through their research works in the nation’s education and economy, among other issues. tribuneonlineng.com/collaboratio... @sppga.ubc.ca
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Collaboration is the missing link in Nigeria research  — Nigerian Canadian don, Rashid
Professor Rashid Sumaila is a world-renowned fisheries economist and Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He speaks to Tunbosun Ogundare in Lagos about how Nigerian scholars c...
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 28/01/2026
Tomorrow (Thursday 29 Jan) at 09:00 UTC+3 #SolvingFCB's @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social is presenting "Marine Protected Areas in Ecosystem-based Management" at #GIKS2026 in the Ecosystem-based Management of Marine Resources segment. giks26.com/en/conferenc... @ubcoceans.bsky.social #KFUPM #BlueEconomy
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 16/01/2026
The Nature Conservancy @nature.org Appoints Dr. Rashid Sumaila @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social to Global Board of Directors www.nature.org/en-us/newsro...
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The Nature Conservancy Appoints Dr. Rashid Sumaila to Global Board of Directors
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) announced the recent appointment of Dr. Rashid Sumaila to its Global Board of Directors.
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
RESEARCH: Accounting for ocean impacts nearly doubles the social cost of carbon. Co-authored by Dr. William Cheung @ubccoru.bsky.social @solvingfcb.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Accounting for ocean impacts nearly doubles the social cost of carbon - Nature Climate Change
Oceans provide essential ecosystem services to human society, yet the climate impacts on blue capital have long been ignored. Incorporating the latest works on ocean science and economics, researchers...
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 10/12/2025
#SolvingFCB's @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social says EIT Water (t.ly/oykZZ) is a major, well-funded boost to Europe’s water innovation with potential for high rewards, but only if governance is inclusive and coordination is tight: t.ly/2VLR1 @ubcoceans.bsky.social #BlueEconomy
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
So happy about our Director, Dr. William Cheung being inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada @src-rsc.bsky.social @ubccoru.bsky.social @solvingfcb.org
So happy about our Director, Dr. William Cheung being inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada @src-rsc.bsky.social 
@ubccoru.bsky.social @solvingfcb.org
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UBC News @news.ubc.ca · 12/11/2025
As #COP30 gets underway in Brazil, developing measures to protect the world’s oceans and fisheries must be on the agenda, writes @ubcoceans.bsky.social Dr. Rashid Sumaila via @ca.theconversation.com buff.ly/Z5K0Lx2
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Governments can protect marine environments by supporting small-scale fishing
Nearly 30 per cent of the world’s population lives in coastal areas. A changing climate and biodiversity loss represent an unprecedented threat to these ecosystems.
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
COP30: Governments must empower forest communities to keep fossil fuels underground theconversation.com/cop30-govern...
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COP30: Governments must empower forest communities to keep fossil fuels underground
Will Brazil’s proposed scheme make a major difference for the climate, and how will it impact communities who live in forests?
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
RESEARCH: Mathematical Bio-Economics 2.0 for #Sustainable #Fisheries. Co-authored by @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nrm.... in #NaturalResourceModeling @solvingfcb.org
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Mathematical Bio‐Economics 2.0 for Sustainable Fisheries
Reconciling food security, economic development, and biodiversity conservation in the face of global changes is a major challenge. The sustainable uses of marine biodiversity in the context of climat...
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Eminent #UBCOceans fisheries economist @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social attended and spoke at the International Seabed Authority plenary. @solvingfcb.org
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
“I think the world realised we needed to do something. As we deplete #coastal waters, where do people go? Suddenly we realised the #highseas are also in trouble,” says @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social dialogue.earth/en/ocean/wha... @solvingfcb.org @ubcsppga.bsky.social @dialogueearth.bsky.social
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What next for the High Seas Treaty as entry into force nears?
Here’s what you need to know about the first international agreement focused on protecting marine biodiversity in international waters
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 12/06/2025
#SolvingFCB’s Dr. William Cheung & Aleah Wong join #UNOC2025 Ocean Action Panel 8 (530-645PM) as small-scale fishers share challenges, defend rights-based approaches & fight for justice, decent work & #FoodSecurity >>> unoc.solvingfcb.org#blue #SmallScaleFishers #SDG14 #SolvingFCB
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Solving-FCB at UNOC3
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 12/06/2025
Today at #UNOC3: #SolvingFCB's presented "Ocean & Climate: sustainable development" as part of Let’s talk about ocean & climate: Actions for SDG 14, sharing ocean-climate solutions and sustainable development strategies. #SDG14 @ubcoceans.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca #UNOC2025
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#UBCOceans folk are at #UNOC3 #UNOceanConference #UNOC2025 in force! Keep en eye out for #WilliamCheung ‪@ubccoru .bsky.social‬ & @solvingfcb.org @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social of @solvingfcb.org @amandavincent.bsky.social @projectseahorse.bsky.social . #UBCexcellence
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Dr. William Cheung has a poster at One Ocean Science Congress in Nice, France on June 3! See "Scientific & technical innovations to revolutionize knowledge production for the conservation & management of migratory & straddling biodiversity in "La Baleine", P457 @solvingfcb.org
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
As part of UNOC, @solvingfcb.org is hosting a PUBLIC side event! Small but Powerful: harnessing the diversity of small-scale fisheries to solve the sustainability challenges at the food-climate-biodiversity nexus, takes place on June 11, 2025 @ 8:15 am. More info: oceans.ubc.ca/2025-un-ocea...
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 14/05/2025
New Paper: #SolvingFCB Co-Director @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social and Sebastian Villasante examine how rapid Blue Economy growth is increasing conflicts over ocean space/resources, proposing strategies to ease tensions and promote equitable ocean governance www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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Frontiers | Surging blue economy, increasing conflict risks and mitigation strategies
The Blue Economy is raising optimism worldwide but the human expansion into, and the overcrowding of, the Ocean threatens increasing conflict between sectors...
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
@drrashidsumaila.bsky.social says the costs of managing environmental damage caused by deep-sea mining will likely be astronomical. “Sometimes you just have to leave things alone.” www.fastcompany.com/91320702/the... @fastcompany.com @solvingfcb.org
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The U.S. needs critical minerals. Can we get them without sacrificing our oceans?
President Trump is reportedly considering an executive order that would speed up permitting for deep-sea mining, which could lead to a host of problems for underwater ecosystems.
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 14/04/2025
Did you catch Episode 2 of the #SolvingFCB Podcast? Host Duncan Murray explores how climate change, overfishing & runoff threaten Costa Rica’s Gulf of Nicoya. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2M0X... Find out more: solvingfcb.org/podcast/ @ubcoceans.bsky.social #GulfOfNicoya #SustainableFishing
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Costa Rica's Gulf of Nicoya: Fisheries, Ecology, and Community with Fresia Villalobos-Rojas and Dr. Christian Birkel
Solving-FCB: Solving the Sustainability Challenges at the Food-Climate-Biodiversity Nexus · Episode
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 28/03/2025
Check out Episode 1 of the #SolvingFCB Podcast! Work/Learn Student Duncan Murray speaks with Dr. William Cheung of @ubcoceans.bsky.social Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/02jm... Or Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... Or check it out on our website: solvingfcb.org/podcast/
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 19/03/2025
More info here: linkedin.com/posts/friend... Global Future Council on Regenerative Blue Economy Website: initiatives.weforum.org/global-futur... @ubcoceans.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @ubcsppga.bsky.social
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#oceanaction #globalfuturecouncil #blueeconomy | Friends of Ocean Action | 19 comments
🌊 Launching the Global Future Council on the Regenerative Blue Economy! 🌊 The World Economic Forum has officially launched the Global Future Council on the… | 19 comments on LinkedIn
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 19/03/2025
#SolvingFCB’s @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social will co-chair the @weforum.org Global Future Council on the Regenerative Blue Economy! The group will drive sustainable ocean growth & conservation. With the ocean economy set to top $3T by 2030, their work is key for climate resilience & marine innovation.
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 11/03/2025
#SolvingFCB Co-PI @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social is presenting today as part of ʻĀkoʻakoʻa & Hōkūleʻa 50th Anniversary, at the Hawai’i convention centre in Honolulu. The title of his presentation is "Reimagining ocean economics".
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 10/03/2025
#Geoduck clams can cost up to $30/lb,with 90% of BC's $55M industry reliant on China. Could a slowing Chinese economy threaten the market? #SolvingFCB Co-PI @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social weighs in via @businessinsider.com: youtu.be/dTXT7qORWJo @ubcoceans.bsky.social
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Why Geoducks Are So Expensive | So Expensive | Business Insider
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 10/03/2025
🌊 The ocean covers 70% of Earth, generates half our oxygen, and absorbs 25% of CO₂—but it's under threat. The Earth Commission is defining the first-ever safe & just boundaries to protect marine ecosystems while ensuring social equity. Learn more: earthcommission.org/news/our-blu... #ClimateAction
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Our Blue Planet: Defining Boundaries for a Thriving Ocean
Yet, the ocean is under threat. Pollution, climate change, and overfishing are taking a toll on marine ecosystems and people alike. At the same time, large areas of the ocean remain unstudied…
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 10/03/2025
#SolvingFCB Article: Nature-Inclusive Agriculture and the Effort to Solve the Netherlands’ Food Production Dilemma solvingfcb.org/netherlands/... by Work/Learn student Duncan Murray w/ assistance from @w-u-r.bsky.social PhD Student Alfred Paarlberg @ubcoceans.bsky.social @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social
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Nature-Inclusive Agriculture and the Effort to Solve the Netherlands’ Food Production Dilemma - Solving FCB
Article by Solving-FCB Work/Learn Student Duncan Murray with assistance from Solving-FCB PhD Student Alfred Paarlberg. Despite being a small, densely-populated country resting largely beneath the ever...
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 10/03/2025
#SolvingFCB Director Dr. William Cheung is presenting the Ronald O. Ball lecture at @ualberta.bsky.social: Making Waves: Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Face of Extreme Events and Irreversible Climate Impacts. Date: Mar. 11, 2025; Time: 3:30-4:30 PM www.ualberta.ca/en/events/ag...
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Making Waves: Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Face of Extreme Events and Irreversible Climate Impacts
The next Ronald O. Ball lecture welcomes William Cheung, Director and Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, UBC to consider who the interaction of climate change and human activities are ...
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 06/03/2025
Insights from the 2025 #SolvingFCB Bi-Annual Meeting & Workshop, held at the University of Costa Rica, San José, Feb 10-13 solvingfcb.org/conferences/... @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social @ubcoceans.bsky.social #FoodSecurity #ClimateChange #Biodiversity
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Insights from the Solving-FCB 2025 Meeting, Costa Rica - Solving FCB
The Solving-FCB Partnership convened in Costa Rica in February 2025 to discuss and drive global action on food security, climate resilience, and biodiversity conservation.
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Juliano Palacios A. @julianop.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Lá última keynote speaker tel taller de @solvingfcb.bsky.social en #CostaRica, la increíble Fresia Villalobos de #Marviva
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 03/03/2025
#SolvingFCB Co-Director @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social received the King Charles III Commemoration Medal at a ceremony held on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Congratulations, Rashid! oceans.ubc.ca/2025/03/03/k... @ubcoceans.bsky.social @coastmanafrica.bsky.social
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Faculty members receive King Charles III Commemoration Medals | Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Dr. Rashid Sumaila and Dr. Andrew Trites received King Charles III Commemoration Medals.
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 13/02/2025
Fresia Villalobos of #Marviva #CostaRica is giving the final #SolvingFCB Keynote presentation today at 13:30(CST)/11:30(PST): "Balancing Conservation and Livelihoods: Lessons Learned from the Gulf of Nicoya" & will be streamed live at: youtube.com/@WebTVUCR www.facebook.com/escueladegeo...
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Laura Pereira @laurap18.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Always great to attend a keynote by Rashid Sumaila who is setting the tone for ambitious thinking across the food-climate-biodiv nexus with a focus on ocean economics #infinityfish 🎣 🐟 🌊 for our @solvingfcb.bsky.social project meeting in 🇨🇷 Let’s NOT take everything, from everywhere all at once
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 13/02/2025
Day 4 of the #SolvingFCB conference begins with Cross-project discussion, modelling workshop, integrative/synthesis group planning, and a final Keynote from Fresia Villalobos of Marviva Costa Rica. Many updates to follow; follow us on x.com/SolvingFCB, and solvingfcb.org. @ubcoceans.bsky.social #UCR
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 11/02/2025
#SolvingFCB's @laurap18.bsky.social will be presenting the Day 2 Keynote: Operationalising the Nature Futures Framework for improved anticipatory governance in diverse contexts. This will be streamed live today at 13:30PM (CST)/11:30(PST): www.youtube.com/@WebTVUCR & www.facebook.com/escueladegeo...
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 10/02/2025
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Charla: From Vanishing Fish to Infitiny Fish: Three things we need to abandon
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Juliano Palacios A. @julianop.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Off we go! Rashid Sumaila is opening the @solvingfcb.bsky.social meeting at the #UCR
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 10/02/2025
Today is the start of the 2nd #Solving-FCB Conference. This time, over 30 of our finest (and a further 20 or so remotely) will meet in Costa Rica for cross-project discussions, presentations, workshops, discuss case study progress and goals, and much more. Stay tuned for updates throughout the week!
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Scientists have discovered that human language and #whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and structured. www.abc.net.au/news/science... via @abcnewsbot.bsky.social
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Whale songs follow 'a lot of the same rules' as human language
Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and structured.
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 29/01/2025
WEBINAR: Join #SolvingFCB's Dr. Andrea Marais-Potgieter on: Expanding Stakeholders: Including Non-Human Species in Futures Thinking incommonpodcast.org/podcast/pecs...
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PECS #57: Expanding Stakeholders: Including Non-Human Species in Futures Thinking with Andrea Marais-Potgieter
https://vimeo.com/1050842054?share=copyAbstract:The Nature Futures Framework is a heuristic tool that focuses on envisioning positive human-nature relationships. The tool is aimed at exploring
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
RESEARCH: Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030. Coauthored by @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social . www.nature.com/articles/s43... via @naturefood.bsky.social @solvingfcb.bsky.social
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Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030 - Nature Food
This study presents the first annual update of the indicator framework developed by the Food Systems Countdown Initiative, published in Nature Food in 2023. Almost half of all indicators show some des...
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 23/01/2025
The Gulf of Nicoya, Illegal Fishing, and the Branch of Science at the Centre of Everything: solvingfcb.org/costa-rica/t... @ubcoceans.bsky.social @ubccoru.bsky.social @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
RESEARCH: Chapter 18 - Climate change impacts on marine #fish ecology and #fisheries. Co-authored by Dr. William Cheung @solvingfcb.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Climate change impacts on marine fish ecology and fisheries
Ocean warming and acidification propagate to the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems, from the performance of individual organisms to the c…
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
RESEARCH: Detecting, Attributing, and Projecting Global Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries Change: FishMIP 2.0. Co-authored by @julianop.bsky.social #WilliamCheung @ubccoru.bsky.social @solvingfcb.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... #openaccess
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Detecting, Attributing, and Projecting Global Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries Change: FishMIP 2.0
Detecting, attributing, and projecting climate change risks on marine ecosystems and fisheries requires models with realistic dynamics FishMIP 2.0 incorporates fishing and climate impact trajecto...
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
RESEARCH: Hope or Despair Revisited: Assessing Progress and New Challenges in Global Fisheries. By #WilliamCheung, @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social @solvingfcb.bsky.social #DanielPauly @seaaroundus.org onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #OpenAccess
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Hope or Despair Revisited: Assessing Progress and New Challenges in Global Fisheries
Marine fisheries are crucial to the economy, livelihood, food security and culture of coastal nations and communities, significantly contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. ....
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 05/12/2024
Making the case for #genderinclusive #fisheries governance, policies and climate adaptation. By Ayodele Oloko, Louise Teh, Philippe Le Billon, William Cheung, Sarah Harper, and RashidSumaila @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social @ubcoceans.bsky.social solvingfcb.org/publications...
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
William Cheung is confronting the inequities of #ocean #conservation through collective action via @ubyssey.ca ubyssey.ca/features/wil... @solvingfcb.bsky.social @ubccoru.bsky.social
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William Cheung is confronting the inequities of ocean conservation through collective action
Growing up in Hong Kong, Dr. William Cheung was always fascinated by the ocean and its vastness, beauty and abundance of life.
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 26/11/2024
#SolvingFCB's Dr. Laura Pereira will be speaking at the WWF 2024 Lovejoy Symposium, where leading experts will convene to explore the state of knowledge on tipping points & how social change can be harnessed to reduce nature loss and address the climate crisis. www.worldwildlife.org/pages/2024-l...
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Solving-FCB @solvingfcb.org · 25/11/2024
Solving-FCB's Dr. Rashid Sumaila examines the complex interplay between fisheries, climate change, and global trade, particularly focusing on developing countries: tessforum.org/latest/fishe...
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TESS - Fisheries – Trade, Climate, and Net Zero Pathways: Scenarios and Implications for Developing Countries and Climate-Resilient Development
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