#RamonMargalefColloquia
This talk was part of the 8th edition of the Ramon Margalef Colloquia: “Past, present and future of a living ocean” that took place in September 2022 at the Institute of Marine Sciences.
ABSTRACT:
The adaptation and mitigation of climate change implies profound changes in every aspect of the socio-economy and also in the way we relate with environment and nature. Currently, we are dealing with three main crises: climate, ecosystems and energy/materials. EU proposes to rapidly reduce the Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions by doing a massive transition to renewable energy sources (RES) and, at the same time, proposes to increase the health and the resilience of the ecosystems by increasing marine protected areas. One big issue that arises from this approach is that large scale RES implementation requires the use of extensive land and marine areas. This can conflict with the increase of protected areas for ecosystem health. On top of that, the main question is if it is enough to replace fossil fuels with RES and keeping the current growth paradigm to deal with the three crisis we have to face.
