Exploring Marine Management and Policy Response to Ocean Acidification

Wednesday 24 May 2023

Location: Brest, France

A side meeting on the margins of European Maritime Day 2023: Exploring Marine Management and Policy Response to Ocean Acidification

24 May between 7:30am-9:30am at the Marina du Chateau in Brest France.

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Our Dr Helen Findlay, Biological Oceanographer at PML, member of the Executive Council for the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON), lead coordinator for the GOA-ON North East Atlantic Ocean Acidification (NEA-OA) regional hub and co-author on the OSPAR Quality Status Report 2023, will be speaking at this event.

Themes of the workshop focus on maritime policies including the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and Water Framework Directive or national equivalents in non-EU member states; marine spatial planning; applying cumulative impact assessments to ecosystems-based management; safeguarding European marine economies in the context of climate change.

The meeting will bring together policy and decision-makers across Europe for brief presentations and breakout discussions of:

1. OA trends, biological impacts and threats to keystone fisheries and aquaculture within the Arctic, North Atlantic and Mediterranean.
2. Reporting and OA recommendations by OSPAR’s Intersessional Correspondence Group on OA (ICG-OA) in OSPAR’s Quality Status Report 2023, with PML co-authors, as well as national response strategies.
3. EU and national ocean and marine policy frameworks (including the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, Water Framework Directive and Marine Spatial Planning efforts) that can be leveraged to characterize, address, and minimize ocean and coastal acidification.

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