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Pinpointing our oceans’ tipping point

Climate change is pushing oceans towards thresholds that, once passed, could result in irreversible cascading impacts.

The key to preventing such damage is to know what that tipping point is – which is exactly what the COMFORT project has worked on. The project looked at contributing factors such as warming, acidification, biological carbon production, and oxygen content. What it found offered little in the way of comfort, with some thresholds having already been crossed and others likely to be passed soon. The good news is that the project also proposed several mitigation strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that could begin tipping our oceans in a better direction.

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COMFORT, synergy, growth, green transition, climate-neutral, energy, renewables, CINEA, transport, shipping, European Green Deal, green hydrogen, greenhouse gas emission, carbon footprint, CO2, renewable energy, climate action, wind propulsion