What Role for Ocean-Based Renewable Energy and Deep-Seabed Minerals in a Sustainable Future?

Peter M. Haugan and Lisa A. Levin Energy Solutions

What Role for Ocean-Based Renewable Energy and Deep-Seabed Minerals in a Sustainable Future?
High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy

This paper examines how and to what degree energy from the ocean can contribute to the climate agenda and achieving SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), including identifying new solutions and their potential impact, as well as addressing related safety and environmental concerns.

Additionally, the paper current developments in green technology, and the potential for deep -seabed minerals mining to help meeting rising technological demand, as well as the related environmental risks, legal and rights-based challenges, conflict with sustainable development goals and future policy options. The authors for this paper are: Peter Haugan, Lisa Levin, Diva Amon, Hannah Lily, Mark Hemer, and Finn Gunnar Nielsen

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