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Outputs of the eMSP NBSR Project are now out at Results section (see below). One of them is a policy brief on Climate-smart MSP co-authored with Aino Rekola, Andrea Morf and Kira Gee Here are some key messages on that topic. Climate-smart planning mainstreams climate mitigation and adaptation thinking into MSP and includes also considerations of environmental and social dimensions. Climate-smart aims to climate resilient marine planning that applies an ecosystem-based appoach and principles of #climatejustice. For instance, simply building lots of wind turbines, because of being "an overriding public interest", and not properly considering environmental and social dimensions is not smart, hence it is not climate-smart either 😉 Climate change is happening and we need to invest in both mitigation and adaptation actions. Now and a lot! Changing climate changes the seas and so do the actions we are taking to limit the climate change and to cope with the inevitable changes. We are building huge amounts of renewable energy and turning maritime sectors onto a climate-neutral path, because we have to. And we will start planning and using the seas in climate-smart ways, because we have to. The ways we use, know and relate to the seas are changing. These changes are both inevitable and permanent. The policy brief presents types of actions that countries in the North Sea and Baltic Sea regions are already taking or are planning to take to include climate considerations into their national marine plans and into regional collaboration. These 44 (!) actions are presented in three blocks as recommendations to policy-makers, to planners and to knowledge prividers. One of the general recommendations is then that all three types of actors are needed onboard to make climate-smart MSP happening. Another general message is that we need climate-smart ocean governance as an umbrella to climate-smart MSP and climate-smart sector policies. If climate-smart actions in different sectors are consistent, climate-smart marine plans can deliver good results. After all, MSP is only mandated to deliver spatial plans, not full ocean governance. https://lnkd.in/dcDgzxKk

The European Maritime Spatial Planning week (MSP week) was in full swing and CrossGov was right in the middle of it! 🌊 The MSP week offers a unique opportunity for stakeholders from industry, civil society, the public sector, and academia to come together and reflect on their achievements and research. Here is some of what our project partners at CNR-ISMAR Institute of Marine Sciences shared:  🔍 How #coherence and #crosscompliance of marine related policies and legislation affect the ability to realize the EU Green Deal goals.  📈 Our comprehensive methodological approach to understand where in the policy cycle or at which governance level challenges of coherence emerge and where these can be resolved.  🌊 Our 8 case studies where we study policy coherence on a local and regional level.    Stay tuned for more updates! #MSPweek #coherence #crosscompliance #environment #sustainability #oceanconservation #oceangovernance #oceanlaw #blueconomy #horizoneurope #environmentallaw #marinegovernance

How to deal with the Cumulative impact on the Baltic Sea?

Here we are at the end of the final event of the PROTECT Project. At today’s event we presented the final results of two years of the project, covering three main topics, as our community manager Remco Timmermans explains: 1. The role of innovation procurement and pre-commercial procurement #PCP in developing Earth observation-based solution for climate adaptation for local autorities and public buyers 🌍 2. The role of Earth observation in helping local authorities in their climate adaptation policies 🛰️ 3. The continuation of the learnings and activities of the PROTECT Project in an actual new PCP Call, called ‘PCP Wise’, about which we will inform you further very soon! 💶 All information is and will be available on our website: protect-pcp.eu #Expandeo #InnovationProcurement #EUspace

OPEN CALL TO PARTICIPATE: Registration to the Baltic Sea Workshop is now unrolled! | 📨 https://lnkd.in/dnvAf24X 🪁 September 17, 2024 📍 Rīga, Latvia 👥 45 participant capacity 👔 Organised by Vides aizsardzības un reģionālās attīstības ministrija team in collaboration with project’s #BalticSeaRegion partnership. Join us to land discussing recommendations on how to strengthen the European Green Deal (#EGD) ambition of the EU Maritime Spatial Plans (#MSPs) for the #BalticSea, as to reflect on regional specificities and identify relevant topics, actions, and priorities to be taken into consideration! European Commission CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency #EMFAF #MaritimeSpatialPlanning Project's #BSR partnership: Vides aizsardzības un reģionālās attīstības ministrija | MSP FI - MSP in Finland, Suomen merialuesuunnittelu | Varsinais-Suomen liitto - Regional Council of Southwest Finland | Associated: VASAB | The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Germany

With Midsummer Solstice potent energies still in the air, here is to put a word out on this recently released open call for #BalticSea stakeholders to engage in guiding discussions on a transitional path for our precious marine environment! On September 17, 2024, the Workshop "European Green Deal through the eyes of MSP in Baltic Sea Region" aims to present and discuss the carried-out MSP - GREEN project recommendations on how to strengthen the European Green Deal (EGD) ambition of the EU Maritime Spatial Plans (MSPs). By welcoming a wide range of stakeholders (including maritime spatial planning practitioners, planners, decision-makers, experts and other interested parties), the main intention is to reflect on Baltic Sea regional specificities and identify relevant topics, actions, and priorities to be taken into consideration. The workshop is organised by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of Latvia in collaboration with the project's Baltic Sea Region partnership. ⛵️ Join us, our wonderful MSP-GREEN project Baltic Sea Region team, to discover past 2 year achievements and developed recommendations stemming from 5 EU sea-basin perspective! This will be accommodated by interactive working group sessions on maritime spatial planning matters in light of the European Green Deal objectives, and in combination to enjoy refreshing Indian Summer/early Autumn days here in Rīga (Latvia) thematically! Seats are limited. Registration is compulsory and will remain open until August 27th: https://lnkd.in/dvN7CFwC #Maritime #Spatialplanning #EuropeanGreenDeal #BSR #planners #decisionmakers

I've been working on the concept of Peace Infrastructure Projects over the past year or so. Therein, IMO, the point of technology, is to transformationally benefit humanity. Yet interestingly, so I'm learning, the process of defining humanitarian technology is actually quite different to alternate pursuits. requires comprehensive consideration of many issues so often otherwise not well considered, like human rights. so, these works have advanced a bit and here is a draft document, linked to a few others, where I'm working on the idea of peace industries and in turn, advocating for.the development of Departments of Peace to diversify investments & projects. who wants to help? FWIW: we still need #HumanCentricAI to help power it.. but I have a particular set of views, therein 🖖 check it out, let me know your thoughts. https://lnkd.in/gBC8_F8b

To #Coastal communities and professionals, go check this out 👀 🤓 Workshop to present 15 pilot 'use cases' designed to support the implementation of EU Directives at the national level. How these projects used the Copernicus Marine Service (free and open data) to answer their questions. Approaches to: * Downscale monitoring activities: Tailoring data from the open ocean to specific coastal regions; and or * Enhance user-focused services: Developing practical applications for marine policy and governance stakeholders.

The Atlantic Regions participated in the 𝐂𝐏𝐌𝐑 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐮 in Patras, last week, to orient the future actions of the overall CPMR. What is to retain? 🔎 🌍 𝐂𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲: Regions called on the maintaining of the share management principle and gave concrete examples of simplification measures to bring to cohesion policy. They debated with Commissioner Ferreira who was present in Patras. Commissioner Ferreira said “𝐿𝑒𝑡’𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 #𝐶𝑜ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑦 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑦, 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐸𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛". The AAC Presidency led by the Basque Country highlighted an update on the Atlantic Macro-Region. 🚆 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲: the AAC Presidency contributed to the CPMR Policy Position on the Greening Freight Package by warning that the new rules could exacerbate the situation on heavily congested sections of certain roads and expressing its concern that the rules favour road-based options over rail, contrary to the TEN-T's objective. 🌊 𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞𝐝: Regions were able to intervene to shape CPMR workplan on Climate Adaptation, Maritime Spatial Planning and Migration Policy. #Atlantic #AtlanticArc #Cooperation #CPMR

The first Session is approaching soon on the 14th of March: Session I: The Atlantic’s Digital Infrastructure – How are we connected, how can digital connectivity across the Atlantic space be improved, where are the gaps, how can the unconnected get connected?  then: Session II (April 25): How can digital transformation improve Marine Spatial Planning in the Atlantic space? Session III (May 16): How can digital transformation improve Maritime Information Systems and Maritime Domain Awareness in the Atlantic Space? What are priority risk and resilience challenges? This project is being launched as a “think ahead” effort in the spirit of the Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation (PAC), a grouping of 32 Atlantic countries, on these and other issues. This link will tell you more about the PAC: ·       https://lnkd.in/dpkmzWaG Looking forward to explore current pan-Atlantic digital connections; identify gaps in digital access and priority risk and resilience challenges; discuss how digital transformation can improve marine spatial planning and maritime information systems in the Atlantic space; and recommend ways governments and private actors can generate more effective pan-Atlantic digital connectivity and expand access for the digitally excluded.