Data from: Large benefits to marine fisheries of meeting the 1.5°C global warming target

• Main Authors: Cheung, William W. L., Reygondeau, Gabriel, Froelicher, Thomas L.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Borealis 2021
• Subjects: Other; Arctic; Pacific; Climate change; Global warming
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/sha256:f7b0a5f356a5e8008a3d59ad52aef31e9eaae4fed48ba692a96045f4ea3af722

AbstractTranslating the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial level into impact-related targets facilitates communication of the benefits of mitigating climate change to policy-makers and stakeholders. Developing ecologically relevant impact-related targets for marine ecosystem services, such as fisheries, is an important step. Here, we use maximum catch potential and species turnover as climate-risk indicators for fisheries. We project that potential catches will decrease by more than 3 million metric tons per degree Celsius of warming. Species turnover is more than halved when warming is lowered from 3.5° to 1.5°C above the preindustrial level. Regionally, changes in maximum catch potential and species turnover vary across ecosystems, with the biggest risk reduction in the Indo-Pacific and Arctic regions when the Paris Agreement target is achieved., Usage notesData for fig. 1 - 4These are the data used to plot figures 1 - 4 of the paper.Data.zip