
Climate Change
and Future Marine
Ecosystem
Services
and Biodiversity

Policy Papers
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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 scientists contributed to.

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