A paper published in Science and co-authored by Somerville Fellow Alex Rogers has warned of the high risk posed to the world’s oceans by continued high emissions.

Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO2 emissions scenarios evaluates the changes to the oceans and their ecosystems under two contrasting CO2 scenarios – the current high-emissions trajectory and an alternative, which tracks the Copenhagen Accord targets.

The paper was reported on in The Guardian, among many other news outlets.

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