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How much does Ocean cost?
From 612 billion to 1.98 trillion dollars can reach by 2100 the annual total losses of humanity due to damage to the oceans due to global climate change - in the form of reduced fish catch, losses to the tourism industry, rising sea levels, storms, etc. The lower and upper limits refer, respectively, to development scenarios with low or high greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, analyzed by a group of experts from the Stockholm Environment Institute. In a brief summary of the book prepared for publication, “How Much Is the Ocean Worth?” [1] states that this study is the first attempt to quantify the real cost of all resources and services that the World Ocean provides to humanity, and to predict the economic consequences of losses that global climate change may cost, even just due to damage to the ocean, already in the 21st century. The researchers also point out ways to avoid or at least mitigate some of these consequences.
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based on materials from scidev.net [2]