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Designing intelligent climate policy requires understanding to what extent climate change jeopardizes ecosystem functioning and services, and the potential for effective and efficient Nature-based Solutions (NBS) and Nature-inclusive Harvesting (NIH) to safeguard biodiversity contributions to people. FutureMARES develops evidence-based guidance at appropriate spatial and temporal scales for our two NBSs and one NIH (Effective Restoration, Effective Conservation and Nature-inclusive Harvesting) across a broad range of European and other marine and transitional systems resulting from a guided process leading to in-depth knowledge integrating climate, social, ecological and economic systems.
Find below key policy papers that FutureMARES published or contributed to.
FutureMARES Policy Briefs
FutureMARES Policy Brief 1
Butenschön M, Kristiansen T & Peck MA (2024): Policy Brief 1 - Climate Exposure of European Marine Areas: Hotspots and Refugia.
PDF available here.
Cite this Policy Brief as:
Butenschön M, Kristiansen T & Peck MA (2024): Climate Exposure of European Marine Areas: Hotspots and Refugia. FutureMARES Policy Brief 1. Available at: https://www.futuremares.eu/policy-papers
FutureMARES Policy Brief 2
Rilov G, Chust G & Peck MA (2024): Policy Brief 2 - Marine Biodiversity: Climate Sensitivity and Resilience.
PDF available here.
Cite this Policy Brief as:
Rilov G, Chust G & Peck MA (2024): Marine Biodiversity: Climate sensitivity and resilience. FutureMARES Policy Brief 2. Available at: https://www.futuremares.eu/policy-papers
FutureMARES Policy Brief 3
Bueno-Pardo J, Ojea E & Peck MA (2024): Policy Brief 3 - Nature-Based Solutions Decrease Climate Risks to Marine Habitats and Ecosystem Services.
PDF available here.
Cite this Policy Brief as:
Bueno-Pardo J, Ojea E & Peck MA (2024): Nature-based Solutions Decrease Climate Risks to Marine Habitats and Ecosystem Services. FutureMARES Policy Brief 3. Available at: https://www.futuremares.eu/policy-papers
FutureMARES Policy Brief 4
Coll M, Lynam C, Corrales X, Espasandin L, Ortega M,Puntila-Dodd R, Szalaj D, Tomczak M, Steenbeek J, Peck MA (2024): European Digital Marine Labs: Testing the role of NBS in Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainable Fisheries.
PDF available here.
Cite this Policy Brief as:
Coll M, Lynam C, Corrales X, Espasandin L, Ortega M, Puntila-Dodd R, Szalaj D, Tomczak M, Steenbeek J & Peck MA (2024): European Digital Marine Labs: Testing the role of NBS in Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainable Fisheries. FutureMARES Policy Brief 4. Available at: https://www.futuremares.eu/policy-papers
FutureMARES Policy Brief 5
Dorte Krause-Jensen, Ana Queirós, Fabio Bulleri, Elizabeth Talbot, Rob Wilson, Marta Coll, Ignacio Catalán, Jorge Terrados, Myron A. Peck (2024): Blue forest in a future climate. PDF available here.
Cite this Policy Brief as:
Krause-Jensen D, Queirós A, Bulleri F, Talbot E, Coll M, Catalán I, Terrados J & Peck MA (2024): Blue Forests in a Future Climate. FutureMARES Policy Brief 5.
Available at: https://www.futuremares.eu/policy-papers
FutureMARES Science for Policy Sessions - June 2024
SESSION I
Climate Sensitivity and Resilience of Marine Biodiversity.
Moderator: Myron A. Peck (NIOZ)
Presentations: Momme Butenschön (CMCC) et al., Gil Rilov (IOLR) et al.
PDF available here.
SESSION II
Effective Restoration and Conservation Strategies for Marine Species and Habitats.
Moderator: Isabel Sousa Pinto (CIIMAR)
Presentations: Ana Queirós (PML) et al., José A. Fernandes (AZTI) et al., Dorte Krause-Jensen (AU) et al.
PDF available here.
SESSION III
Marine Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Harvesting in a Future Climate.
Moderator: Chris Lynam (Cefas)
Presentations: Marta Coll (ICM-CSIC) et al, Juan Bueno Pardo (UVIGO) et al., Sarah Simons (TI), et al.
PDF available here.
FutureMARES Science to Policy Session 2024 - Agenda
PDF available here.
FutureMARES Contributions
UN Global Compact (2021): Roadmap to Integrate Offshore Renewable Energy into Climate-Smart Marine Spatial Planning.
PDF available here.
FutureMARES authors:
Dr Ana Queiros, PML
Austin, W., Cohen, F., Coomes, D., Hanley, N., Lewis, S., Luque-Lora, R., Marchant, R., Naylor, L., Queirós, A. M., Savaresi, A., Seddon, N., Smith, A., Smith, P. and Wheeler, C. (2021): Nature-based solutions for climate change, people and biodiversity. COP26 Universities Network Briefing.
PDF available here.
FutureMARES authors:
Dr Ana Queiros, PML