Towards IPOS (International Platform for Ocean Sustainability)’s Post

The ocean urgently needs decisive, swift, and unified efforts to address its critical condition. This is the challenge facing the global community at the third United Nations Ocean Conference #UNOC3, to be held in #Nice from 9 to 13 June 2025. To ensure that the political decisions to be taken are rooted in science, IFREMER and CNRS organize the international scientific congress One Ocean Science #OOSC bringing together 2,000 experts from all over the world. #UNOC3, UN Ocean Decade, #GobiernoDeCostaRica, Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, Ministère Écologie Territoires, Ministère chargé de la Mer et de la Pêche 👉 https://lnkd.in/e6GrnuuN

🌊 Why protect the Ocean? So the Ocean continues to protect us! Europe’s Ocean scientists launch advice for governments 🌍 Today leading European Ocean scientists launched Navigating the Future VI (NFVI) today, a publication which provides governments, policymakers and funders with robust, independent scientific advice, focusing on the critical role the Ocean plays in the wider Earth system. 🤝 Navigating the Future VI proposes the marine (natural and social) science research we need to help us address the challenges facing the planet, and with whom we need to collaborate to find solutions. 🍀 It focuses on four main themes: #Ocean and #People, Ocean and #Climate, Ocean and #Freshwater and Ocean and #Biodiversity. 👨👩👧👦 This is a flagship publication of the European Marine Board IVZW, an independent non-governmental advisory body that represents more than 10,000 marine scientists across Europe. NFVI was written by European Ocean scientists representing all EMB Member organisations (at kick off in 2022), spanning a wide range of backgrounds, disciplines and career levels. 🗣️ Join the conversation using #NFVIOcean #NFVIOcean #NavigatingTheFutureVI #OceanScience #MarinePolicy #Sustainability #ClimateAction #EuropeanMarineBoard You can find the publication here 👇 https://lnkd.in/gyGRxEga

🌊 Why protect the Ocean? So the Ocean continues to protect us! Europe’s Ocean scientists launch advice for governments 🌍 Today leading European Ocean scientists launched Navigating the Future VI (NFVI) today, a publication which provides governments, policymakers and funders with robust, independent scientific advice, focusing on the critical role the Ocean plays in the wider Earth system. 🤝 Navigating the Future VI proposes the marine (natural and social) science research we need to help us address the challenges facing the planet, and with whom we need to collaborate to find solutions. 🍀 It focuses on four main themes: #Ocean and #People, Ocean and #Climate, Ocean and #Freshwater and Ocean and #Biodiversity. 👨👩👧👦 This is a flagship publication of the European Marine Board IVZW, an independent non-governmental advisory body that represents more than 10,000 marine scientists across Europe. NFVI was written by European Ocean scientists representing all EMB Member organisations (at kick off in 2022), spanning a wide range of backgrounds, disciplines and career levels. 🗣️ Join the conversation using #NFVIOcean #NFVIOcean #NavigatingTheFutureVI #OceanScience #MarinePolicy #Sustainability #ClimateAction #EuropeanMarineBoard You can find the publication here 👇 https://lnkd.in/gyGRxEga

🔺 This Tuesday's #𝗛𝗣𝗖𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁🔎💻 article dives into groundbreaking research on "Multiscale ocean modelling: bridging the gab between global changes and local impacts" by Prof. Emmanuel Hanert's team at Université catholique de Louvain. 💻🌊This project aims to address the heightened vulnerability of coastal regions to climate change and human activities, demanding advanced ocean modeling, by using the #MeluXina supercomputer to enhance the SLIM model for seamless integration of global and local scales. 🌟This research's impact: - 𝑹𝒊𝒔𝒌 𝑴𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: Improved ability to forecast and respond to coastal flooding and storm surges, protecting vulnerable populations and infrastructure. - 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: Better simulations to understand and mitigate impacts of human activities such as coastal developments and land-based pollution on crucial marine ecosystems like coral reefs and mangroves. - 𝑬𝒏𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈: Development of a next-generation ocean model capable of bridging global and local scales, aiding in climate change adaptation strategies. 🔗Dive deep: https://lnkd.in/eKX-BG6V Project members: Thomas Dobbelaere | Colin Scherpereel | Miguel De Le Court | Amaury Versaen | Lauranne Alaerts | Riana Randresihaja | Douchan Hanuise | Mattias Van Eetvelt Ministère de l'Économie - Luxembourg | EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) | Luxinnovation GIE | Research Luxembourg | University of Luxembourg | Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) | Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) | Luxembourg Researchers Hub a.s.b.l. | #HPC | #HighPerformanceComputing | #Luxembourg

Ocean Knowledge 2030 Conference to Set the Course for Ireland’s Marine Research and Policy Agenda The Ocean Knowledge 2030 conference promises to be a milestone event in ocean research and collaboration, bringing together leading voices in marine science, policy, and industry to address the most pressing challenges and opportunities for the future of our oceans. This event will set the course for Ireland’s marine research and policy agenda, focusing on […]

Ocean Nexus Deputy Science Director, Gerald Singh (University of Victoria) shares his honest reflections after attending the UN Ocean Decade conference. We often eagerly await the main takeaways and ways forward that follow global conferences uniting experts on ocean issues, but we should also reflect on successes and areas for improvement if we want to drive positive change. “The high level plenary sessions of the meeting largely resembled calls that were present from the UN Ocean Decade from its inception: a notion that humans display the wrong relationships and hold the wrong values of #oceans, and through science and ocean literacy campaigns we will teach the world the correct values and relationships.” says Dr. Gerald Singh, Ocean Nexus Deputy Science Director and #SustainableDevelopment expert. “However there was also a much stronger emphasis during satellite events in this meeting highlighting that coastal communities already hold important knowledge and values which were marginalized because of colonial and oppressive practices. The UN Ocean Decade can more meaningfully direct science towards sustainable development if it continues to emphasize these coastal voices and treat "ocean literacy" as a way to learn about the diverse ways people value and interact with the oceans, not as a process to promote a single value system largely representative of the global north and west." #OceanEquity #SocialEquity #Oceans #OceanDecade24 #SustainableDevelopment #GlobalChange #OceanIssues #CoastalManagement #WorldOceanAssessment #BBNJ #LawoftheSea

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE MASTS ANNUAL SCIENCE MEETING 2024 Scottish Government's Marine Directorate #scientists recently attended the MASTS Scotland (Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland) Annual Science Meeting, where they explored critical #marinescience topics like #bluecarbon, #sustainable #marineresources, and #marine #ecosystem health. This gathering emphasised the importance of innovative research in addressing marine #sustainability and #climatechange challenges.  https://lnkd.in/eJB4NeeX

🌊 The LandSeaLot Horizon Europe project is bringing together 20 partners from 12 different nationalities to co-create a land-sea interface observation strategy. 🌅 Why is this important?  Because the need to reconcile #ecosystem restoration, #biodiversity conservation and #climate adaptation with the increasing demand for energy, food and bioresources is more pressing than ever. 🚀Impact doesn't just happen. Let's observe together to make a real difference! Meet our partners! Deltares Ifremer GeoEcoMar SMHI MARIS B.V. Seascape Belgium Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon @COVARTEC AS Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Hellenic Centre for Marine Research NORCE Norwegian Research Centre University of Liège TransEurope Marinas +ATLANTIC ETT S.p.A. Brockmann Consult GmbH Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) - Suomen ympäristökeskus (Syke) Centre national de la recherche scientifique University of Stirling Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) #EUGreendeal #research #blueeconomy #fisheries #offshoreEnergy #Science #observation #environment #adaptation #UNOceanDecade #MissionOcean Horizon Europe

Arctic Frontiers 2025: Beyond Borders. Tromsø, Norway, January 2025 Look up the science themes: https://lnkd.in/dWaHfcKq With an excellent team of conveners, I look forward to see submissions on our selected theme: "Ecosystem-Based Management from a Pan-Arctic Perspective." Introduction to the theme: Ecosystem-based management (EBM) supports value creation through the sustainable use of natural resources and ecosystem services, including preserving ecosystem structure, functionality, productivity, and biodiversity. Implementation of EBM shows variable success across sectors, Arctic states and beyond. An urgency for integrated use and synthesis of knowledge, methods and approaches from different scientific disciplines, as well as for integrated cross-sectorial management approaches is needed considering the upcoming 2030 conservation and sustainability goals. In this session, our goal is to explore the current progress on implementation of EBM in the Arctic, through increased use of integrated methods across its value chain, from knowledge production to policy development and management. We address the following questions: How can inter-disciplinary science and integrated monitoring increase implementation of EBM? Across the value chain, what lessons have been learned, what barriers have been encountered, and what opportunities have emerged from Arctic EBM practices? Additionally, we invite contributions that demonstrate how implementation of EBM, and a changed management system, have benefited the ecosystem health. We particularly welcome ongoing research projects and case studies that advance our knowledge on cross-sectoral pressures, their impact and risk, as well as their management to ensure the health of marine ecosystems. We hope to see some really god presentations and good discussion in January 2025

A lot is going on here at #BES2024, the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting! 🌍 Vanessa Marrocco, from our Service Centre, is introducing #ENVRI-Hub NEXT to attendees stopping by: a robust framework designed to empower the ENVRI community Science Cluster with interdisciplinary science-based services. This initiative supports #climate change research by developing mitigation and adaptation strategies, assessing climate risks, and integrating the environmental sciences community into the #EOSC through Essential Climate Variables. 🌱 Building on the legacy of past ENVRI projects, ENVRI-Hub NEXT gathers 21 European partners (including LifeWatch ERIC), coordinated by EGI Foundation, to advance multidisciplinary environmental research: ICOS European Plate Observing System Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia CNRS Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CSIC University of Amsterdam CESNET CREA Ricerca Maris Euro-Argo ERIC Finnish Meteorological Institute Forschungszentrum Jülich GRNET - Greek Research & Technology Network Ifremer Lund University NILU Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)