EMFAF co-funded project (DG-MARE): Maritime Spatial Planning as enabler of the European Green Deal
☄ A week ago, the insightful, action-oriented Blue Mission Banos Project #bluemissionbanos #Arena2 lighthouse event took place with its objective to facilitate the development of a sustainable, carbon-neutral, and circular blue economy in the Baltic and North Sea by connecting national, regional, and transnational actors from policy, industry, science and the public, creating a conducive governance model to innovation. . We are glad that also our Latvian partners represented the MSP-GREEN project and highlighted the various basin-level perspective findings on the European #GreenDeal topicality in respect to the #marine environment. During the workshop session on “Policy coherence as a platform for better integration on marine conservation in MSP and sectoral policies: Regional pilots and examples” our #Baltic sea partners Vides aizsardzības un reģionālās attīstības ministrija, representative Kristīne Kedo (The Head of Spatial Planning and Policy Unit) and project contributing team members Marta Štube, Anete Bērziņa, Annija Danenberga outlined in presentation the identification of new #actions in their national setting to be performed fostering #MSP contribution to Green Deal. The operationalisation of the national maritime spatial planning legislation and a coordinated approach between the sectors is at most importance, given the playground perspective of actor-based interest multiplicity. 👩🎓 👨🌾 🕵♀️ 👷♂️ 💭 Quoting directly: "MSP process itself is a playground to turn challenges into opportunities and ensure the best possible deal for sustainable development at our sea!" 🗺 Whilst the Blue Mission Banos Project #bluemissionbanosevent comprehensively aimed to cover the question "What are ways to look at the sea basin as a whole ?", ranging from priorities and actions to be set, considering the need for reconciliation of policy objectives at EU level to taking local action of implementing nature-based solutions together with coastal communities, we aim to continue this discussion during our project #regional sea-basin #workshops by reviewing MSP - GREEN developed recommendations! For the regional Baltic sea basin workshop to be held on the 17th of September 2024 (back-to-back with HELCOM-VASAB MSP Working Group), we invite to express your interest participating by following the link: ▶ https://lnkd.in/diWkKwjd More to follow soon (also for other EU sea basins) But project-wise, that's not it! There are exiting news awaiting next week already ⛴ when we will dive into our Working Package 3 deliverables, and get to know what other project participating country representatives have worked upon from context-specific #challenges identified to new MSP #actions proposed! European Commission | CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency If you missed the event itself, you can catch the opening and closing sessions on YouTube: https://shorturl.at/ktFU4
