http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/focussdgs.html The Ocean goal (14) is set out below UN ‘The countdown to the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 grows apace with the recent adoption of an ‘outcome document’. Goal 14 covers the oceans At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in 2012, governments agreed to set a number […]
TWO Consultations The EU is consulting on the future EU initiative on ‘No Net Loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services’. In the EU, as in other parts of the world, we are continuing to lose biodiversity and with it, the ecosystem services that nature provides to human society. The EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 aims […]
NEF ‘These five sets of briefings cover: UK marine capture fisheries; Infrastructure, aggregates and shipping; Marine Energy (renewable and non-renewable); Fisheries flows and aquaculture; and Recreation. These broad groups reflect the main socio-economic ‘sectors’ which use the UK marine environment. The series presents information about marine industries in terms of the people they employ (both […]
Emma Sheehan ‘Lyme Bay reef update following winter storms. Plymouth University Marine Institute has been annually monitoring recovery of the Lyme Bay reefs (south west UK) since they were protected from towed demersal fishing in 2008. It was unknown whether the reef assemblages would be impacted by this winter’s storms. Monitoring stations from the annual […]
Drawn from the knowledge gaps reported in the latest 2013 MCCIP Report Card, MCCIP have completed a prioritisation exercise with the assistance of the UKMMAS evidence groups and MSCC. The Marine Climate Change Research Priorities 2014 were published today, as a two-page summary of key findings. Click here to see the listing and methodology used […]