GC039-0008
Achieving Sustainable Development Goals While Restoring Pre-industrial CO2 Levels

Wednesday, 9 December 2020
Poster
Mark E Capron, OceanForesters, Oxnard, CA, United States, Jim R. Stewart, OceanForesters, Lakewood, CA, United States, Antoine de Ramon N'Yeurt, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, Michael D. Chambers, University of New Hampshire, Durham, Durham, NH, United States, Jang K. Kim, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea, Charles Yarish, University of Connecticut, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Stamford, CT, United States, Anthony T. Jones, Intake Works, Sacramento, CA, United States, Reginald B. Blaylock, University of Southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs, MS, United States, Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States, Rae Fuhrman, Stingray Sensing, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Martin T. Sherman, OceanForesters, London, United Kingdom, Graham Harris, OceanForesters, Auckland, New Zealand, Don Piper, OceanForesters, Beaufort, NC, United States and Mohammed A. Hasan, OceanForesters, Ventura, CA, United States
Abstract:
“The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development...” (Pope Francis). This can be done by developing new ways to grow food from healthy oceans, collecting and reusing wastes, making eco-friendly fuel and electricity, storing carbon dioxide, and reversing climate change. Food (1 billion wet tonnes of seafood), more than needed in less well-off states, is grown with the extra food sold to better-off states. Nutrients and energy in sewage and trash can be recycled to produce more food and energy (20 million barrels/day of biocrude). Income from food sold to better off states can be used to build eco-friendly carbon-storing power plants that reduce climate change. The new energy plants can initially use coal, natural gas, waste (paper, plastic, food waste), and crop residues; then transition to sustainable biofuel crops such as switchgrass, seaweed, and seagrass. All the CO2 emitted when making energy can be captured and stored, eventually sequestering about 30 billion tonnes of bio-CO2/yr for less than $26/tonne. Growing food and biomass for energy, storing CO2, and improving ocean biodiversity and health can displace the current fossil-fuel industry. After transitioning, these new industries will work in harmony, help reverse climate change (i.e., remove CO2 from the air), and improve sustainability of life for many generations.
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