On February 5, 2019, the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies will host a roundtable to launch a new report published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), entitled Ocean Climate Geoengineering: An Assessment of Potential Risks, Benefits and Governance.
Category: Science & Uncertainty
SOLAS Science & Society
The Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) project aims to understand the biogeochemical-physical interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and atmosphere and is planning an e-mail list on the societal aspects of the research conducted within SOLAS.
Ocean science and policy
Editorial Ocean science and policy, Nature Sustainability, volume 1, page 261, 2018. Societal commitment to protect our seas has never been higher, but it will not succeed unless coordination across the various regulatory bodies involved is achieved.
Survey on influences of global environmental assessments on sustainable ocean development
(Post on behalf of Kyle Fawkes an MSc student at UCC) As part of the research I am conducting with University College Cork, Ireland and Future Earth Coasts, I have developed a short survey to investigate the influences that global environmental assessments and in particular the First World Ocean Assessment have had on sustainable ocean development. If you consider yourself an advocate for the oceans and their sustainability, or if you interact with the oceans on a regular basis, you should take this […]
Budget earmarks $500m to mitigate Great Barrier Reef climate change
From The Guardian The Turnbull government will allocate $500m to mitigate the impacts of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef. The funding, to be unveiled on Sunday and confirmed in the May budget, follows a recent study finding that 30% of the reef’s corals died in a catastrophic nine-month marine heatwave in 2016. The government will partner with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation in a $444m agreement to tackle crown-of-thorns starfish, reduce pollution and […]
Great Barrier Reef saw huge losses from 2016 heatwave
One-third of reefs in the world’s largest coral system were transformed by warmed waters, finds comprehensive underwater and aerial survey. Extreme heat in 2016 damaged Australia’s Great Barrier Reef much more substantially than initial surveys indicated, according to ongoing studies that have tracked the health of the coral treasure. The heatwave caused massive bleaching of the corals that captured worldwide attention. In a paper published on 18 April in Nature, researchers report1 that severe bleaching […]
Small-Scale Fisheries under Climate Change in the Pacific Islands Region
Marine Policy Vol 88 (February 2018; https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/marine-policy/vol/88/suppl/C) features a special section on Small-Scale Fisheries under Climate Change in the Pacific Islands Region. The introductory article’s abstract reads: For Pacific Island communities, social change has always been a part of their socio-political lives, while environmental changes were always transient and reversible, so that they understood and engaged with their ocean as a provider for food, culture and life. However, recent unprecedented and irreversible changes brought on […]
Call for paper abstracts on Earth System Governance for Blue Growth (2018 Utrecht ESG conference)
Much is expected of ‘Blue Growth’ as it simultaneously allows for economic development whilst also protecting our marine environment. Many questions remain about the Blue Economy in practice, however, especially in relation to how social, environmental and economic objectives can be successfully integrated, and how trade-offs between these objectives are made within and across individual Blue Economy sectors. This panel seeks to foster discussion within the ESG community on the Earth System Governance for Blue […]
European Parliament Resolution on Ocean Governance (16/01/18)
On January 16, 2018, the European Parliament passed a resolution titled “International ocean governance: an agenda for the future of our oceans in the context of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.” The full provisional text is included below for taskforce members to reference: 2018-01_EU-Ocean Governance_Parliament Adoption
Capacity building workshop for EU early career marine researchers
The Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR) project is inviting EU early career marine researchers (less than seven years post-PhD) to apply for a workshop on how to operate effectively at the science-policy-society interface. The workshop will take place June 17-20, 2018 in Lošinj, Croatia, and the deadline to apply is March 5, 2018. Workshop flyer: View here Online Application: Click here Workshop Description: Ecological goods and services provided by the oceans are critical to human well-being. However, […]
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