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Ocean Watch - Launch Presentation
- 1. OceanWatch LAUNCH WEBINAR | 30th November 2021
- 2. SUPPORTED BY
- 3. Kate Wing Founding Director, Intertidal Agency Moderator WELCOME
- 4. Steve Fletcher Professor of Ocean Policy and Economy, University of Portsmouth & Ocean Lead, International Resource Panel Speaker Jessie Turner Project Manager, International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification Speaker Jon Baines Manager, Ocean Watch World Resources Institute Speaker Chris Corbin Programme Officer, Cartagena Convention Secretariat Speaker WITH US TODAY
- 5. Jon Baines Manager, Ocean Watch World Resources Institute DEVELOPING OCEAN WATCH
- 6. The Landscape Centralizing lots of data Delivering theme specific data
- 7. Ocean Watch collaborates and convenes to provide a multisectoral view of the ocean to support the uptake of integrated ocean management through the provision of data/information products Vision
- 8. Collaborative Development What limits integrated ocean management? Understand IOM in the Land- sea interface Access the best available data to conduct trade-off analyses Visualise relevant climate models and data layers Policy Makers NGOs CSOs
- 9. Steve Fletcher Professor of Ocean Policy and Economy, University of Portsmouth & Ocean Lead, International Resource Panel COASTAL GOVERNANCE
- 10. Governing coastal resources: Implications for the sustainable blue economy Steve Fletcher Professor of Ocean Policy and Economy, University of Portsmouth, UK Member, UNEP International Resource Panel
- 11. International Resource Panel Secretariat (UNEP) Scientific Panel Steering Committee 37 scientists 27 Governments, European Commission & UNEP Science -Policy Interface Strategic Partners
- 13. • The purpose of the study was to determine governance approaches that could reduce the effects of land-based activities on coastal resources and which support the transition to a sustainable blue economy. Available at: www.resourcepanel.org Purpose of this study
- 15. Living coastal resources are most threatened by land-based activities Key message #1 The impacts of land-based activities on coastal resources Land-based activities Coastal resources
- 16. • All parts of the blue economy are vulnerable to changes in coastal resources, particularly fishing, aquaculture and tourism Key message #2
- 18. Existing land-sea governance approaches cannot cope with the impacts on coastal resources created by land- based activities Key message #3
- 19. • Land-sea governance urgently needs to be strengthened to protect coastal resources from the impacts of land-based activities and to support the transition to a sustainable blue economy Key message #4 Strengthening existing land-sea governance: • Ecosystem-based management is a guiding principle. • Existing area-based management tools can help. • Improved coordinating mechanisms are needed. • Implementation-focused capacity development is needed. • Filling evidence gaps should be prioritized.
- 20. • Land-sea governance urgently needs to be strengthened to protect coastal resources from the impacts of land-based activities and to support the transition to a sustainable blue economy Key message #4 New governance structures: • Focus on the impact pathways connecting land and sea. • Natural capital safeguarding is a unifying principle. • Coastal natural capital needs to be mapped and protected. • Build a land-sea stakeholder community. • Monitoring and evaluation focused on impact pathways. • A land-sea decision-support tool is required.
- 21. • Tackling the impacts of land- based activities on coastal resources is a global priority Key message #5
- 23. WHAT IS OCEAN WATCH? Jessie Turner Project Manager, International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification Jon Baines Manager, Ocean Watch World Resources Institute Chris Corbin Programme Officer, Cartagena Convention Secretariat
- 24. Overview
- 25. Understand land-based pressure Understand IOM in the Land- sea interface The first curated, user friendly data resource focused on land based pressures
- 26. DRIVER PRESSURE STATE IMPACT RESPONSE The Narrative How is land-based pollution generated? How do pollutants travel to the ocean? How do pressures accumulate in the ocean? Why is the ocean so valuable?
- 27. How is land-based pollution generated?
- 28. How do pollutants travel to the ocean?
- 29. Why is the ocean so valuable?
- 30. Support trade-off analyses Providing a mixture of updating economic and geospatial data Access the best available data to conduct trade-off analyses
- 31. Contextualize climate change Visualise relevant climate models and data layers Allowing users to overlay climate pressures with other pressures and ocean resources
- 32. Building on Regional Pollution Assessments, Strategies & Action Plans: Driver, Pressure, State, Impact, Response Methodology How does it help us: UNEP Cartagena Convention Secretariat Regional Seas Programme for the Wider Caribbean Region
- 33. Challenges: • Availability & Accessibility of data • Lack of public awareness & political will • Lack of capacity for monitoring • Lack of Harmonization & Quality Assurance for methodology, data, standards, etc. • Lack of data bases & information management systems • Minimal use of science-based data for Policy & Decision-Making Processes • Sources, Impacts, Trends - VISUAL Opportunities: • Oceans Governance • SDG 14 & related SDGs • Integrated Environmental Assessments • UNEP Pillars: Pollution, Biodiversity & Climate Change • Monitoring & Evaluation • Decades of Ocean Science & Habitat Restoration • Regional Mechanisms & Institutions such as Regional Sea Conventions Challenges and opportunities
- 34. Together, OA Alliance members are… Elevating urgency and ambition for climate action by highlighting impacts to ocean resources, ecosystems and communities. Integrating ocean into climate commitments, policies and multi- governmental frameworks. Translating knowledge into policy actions by national, regional and subnational governments.
- 36. We ask members to: • Reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions. • Advance scientific understanding of climate-ocean impacts. • Reduce local pollutions that exacerbate ocean acidification. • Protect the environment and coastal communities from climate-ocean impacts. • Expand public awareness. • Sustain international and multi-governmental.
- 37. What do policy makers want to know?
- 38. What should our priorities be? • What species or ecosystems are most at risk? • Are there geographic locations /coastal areas/ economies, communities or industries in my jurisdiction that are more vulnerable to ocean changes than others? • Can we identify, characterize and reduce land-based drivers of change? • Who can help outline research that will have practical applicability or help us identify the best investments? • We can be better prepared so that governments can make management choices that will maximize resources and achieve resilience.
- 39. A new tool for informing management
- 40. Q&A Steve Fletcher Professor of Ocean Policy and Economy, University of Portsmouth & Ocean Lead, International Resource Panel Jessie Turner Project Manager, International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification Jon Baines Manager, Ocean Watch World Resources Institute Chris Corbin Programme Officer, Cartagena Convention Secretariat
- 42. GET IN TOUCH Website: www.oceanwatchdata.org Twitter: @WRIOcean | #OceanWatch Contact: jonathan.baines@wri.org Supported by:
Hinweis der Redaktion
- The ocean data world is a busy one. Data is becoming more available and incredible innovations are being made every day. For that reason, when we started down the road of building a data platform we wanted to be certain that it would add value to existing resources and not replicate their impressive efforts. The first step we took with ocean watch was to assess the landscape and engage data providers to understand the products offered and where there was a gap for data users. [CLICK for animation] We found that platforms tend to fall into two categories, grouped around the functions of: making lots of data more centrally available, and making thematic, usually sectoral data more accessible to specific stakeholders. The gap we saw was bringing the curated side of the platforms that focus on sectors and make data so usable, together with the bigger picture provided by the platforms that focus on centralising data from many different sources. Providing a resource to support a user in easily understanding the many parts and sectors of the whole ocean
- Ocean Watch aims to fill that gap. By providing users with a curated, multi sectoral picture of the interconnected ocean to support the world uptake the holistic....integrated ocean management practices that we need for sustainable ocean development and economies. To do so, we worked with some of the most innovative and impactful providers and platforms to pull together the best available data and curate a bigger picture of the ocean [click]
- In defining the vision, the next step we took was to engage the stakeholders central to marine governance. We spoke with more than 90 target users from more than 25 countries to understand what limited their capacity to manage the ocean in a holistic manner, accounting for the interconnected nature of the ocean and the ocean economy, and identify the role of data in that process. We learned from this group that three things were major limitations: understanding complex processes and cumulative pressures, particularly at the land-sea interface accessing data that could support trade off decision making processes and visualising the role of climate change in the ocean The land-sea interface was raised almost ubiquitously as a challenging area. Specifically they highlighted that understanding the processes, engaging the distributed communities, and identifying problem areas were a major challenge. Due to the consensus around this issue we have focussed our initial effort here, building the first module of Ocean Watch to aid users manage the land sea interface in an integrated manner To explore this topic further I will hand it back to Kate. [Click]
- thank co-authors / IRP Sec / IRP members etc.
- The International Resource Panel – IRP was launched in 2007 by the United Nations Environment Programme with the idea of creating a science-policy interface on the sustainable use of natural resources and in particular their environmental impacts over the full life cycle Mission of the Panel is twofold: 1. Provide independent, coherent and authoritative scientific assessments of policy relevance on the sustainable use of natural resources and, in particular, their environmental impacts over the full life cycle. 2. Contribute to a better understanding of how to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation while enhancing human well-being. Secretariat (UNEP): Provides direction, procedures, and support in the development and implementation of assessments as well as outreach Scientific panel: Provides scientific assessments and advice, networks, Steering Committee Steering Committee: Provides strategic guidance, political support, regional synergies
- It has long been recognized that a particular challenge in coastal areas, particularly in Small Island Developing States, is the management of land-based activities that have detrimental impacts on coastal resources. Many of these impacts are the unintended side-effects of land-based human activities that are not entirely taken into account within existing governance frameworks. Developing more effective approaches to the governance of land-based activities to limit their impacts is therefore key to conserving coastal and marine natural capital and associated services upon which people depend. Yet governance responses to coastal resource problems that originate on land remain as difficult as ever to address and are likely to become more challenging as the impacts of climate change take hold.
- The purpose of the study was to determine governance approaches that could reduce the effects of land-based activities on coastal resources and which support the transition to a sustainable blue economy. .
- A Drivers, Pressures, State, Impact, Response (DPSIR) framework was used to assess how global scale drivers generate land-based activities (pressures), which in turn affect the quality and availability (state) of coastal resources. The impact of changing coastal resources on a selection of sustainable blue economy sectors was then considered. Finally, the study presents an analysis of possible governance responses that can reduce the effects of land-based activities on coastal resources and thereby support the transition to a sustainable blue economy. We used a novel iterative evidence-based analysis designed to identify the individual and cumulative effects generated by land-based activities on coastal resources. In total, over 1,000 separate pieces of evidence were reviewed, supported by three international workshops to validate and refine the analysis. The main report contains all of the analysis in great detail and outlines the relationships between specific land-based activities and their impact on coastal resources, both individually and cumulatively. However, in the interests of time, I am going to cut straight to the 5 key messages arising from the report.
- Land-based activities generate multiple individual and cumulative impacts on coastal resources. There is strong evidence that all living coastal resources are highly impacted by land-based activities, with agriculture, ports and harbours, and aquaculture being particularly impactful land-based activities. Biodiversity is the coastal resource most impacted by land-based activities, as shown in Figure 4. In contrast, although evidence is comparatively limited, it seems that non-living coastal resources are largely unaffected by land-based activities.
- There is an increasing focus in national and international ocean policy on the need to transition from unsustainable coastal and ocean resource use to a sustainable blue economy. It is therefore important to consider the implications, for the sustainable blue economy, of changes to the coastal resource base caused by terrestrial activities. As shown in Figure 5, all sectors of the blue economy are vulnerable to changes in coastal resources arising from the impacts of land-based activities. Fishing, aquaculture and tourism are significantly more vulnerable than other sectors, principally due to their dependency on biotic coastal resources, which are particularly at risk from the negative effects of land-based activities.
- For example Aquaculture has grown dramatically over the past 65 years with production dominated by Asia which has accounted for 89 per cent of world aquaculture production. Shrimp farming is commonly undertaken in coastal ecosystems such as wetlands and estuaries, and in close proximity to mangroves. Shrimp aquaculture generates significant impacts on living coastal resources and the economic sectors that rely on those resources. The loss of biodiversity, along with ecosystem structure and function, due to the removal of mangroves in unplanned and unregulated shrimp aquaculture is of particular concern. While aquaculture can damage other areas of the blue economy, aquaculture itself is highly vulnerable to degradation in the overall quality of the coastal ecosystem.
- An analysis of existing governance approaches showed that land-based activities are currently managed through sector-specific arrangements with limited, if any, regard for their effects on coastal resources. Considerable variation in governance institutions, frameworks, practices and effectiveness between (and often within) nations and sectors exists, with the coastline commonly used as a legal and administrative boundary, with often radically different governance systems applied to the terrestrial and marine sides of the dividing line. This results in fragmented governance systems that impede coordinated action to reduce the effects of land-based activities on coastal resources. This problem is magnified when land-based activities originate in other countries or contribute to the degrading of coastal resources at a regional scale. The existing models of coastal governance are not able to cope adequately with the impacts created by land-based activities on coastal resources.
- New governance frameworks are needed that better connect land-based activities to coastal resource systems in order to enable impacts to be considered from their source through to where they are generated. Options to strengthen existing practices in land-sea governance as well as new governance approaches are presented below. A critical step in strengtheningcoastal governance arrangements is to have good information about the connections between land and sea, including simple information about where coastal resources are located, where the pressures on those resources originate, and how the pressures are changing as a result of their underlying drivers.
- New governance frameworks are needed that better connect land-based activities to coastal resource systems in order to enable impacts to be considered from their source through to where they are generated. Options to strengthen existing practices in land-sea governance as well as new governance approaches are presented below.
- The most impactful land-based activities on coastal resources should be prioritized for urgent action, as these will generate most benefits for the sustainable blue economy most quickly. Given that the impact of any land-based activity on coastal resources, particularly living resources, can vary according to the location, character, condition and resilience of the local ecosystems, each nation could analyze the most impactful land-based activities within their territory. In the global study, these were agriculture, ports and harbors, and aquaculture. The longer-term ambition should be to shift from the current fragmented land-sea governance structures to more integrated approaches that connect all stages of the impact pathway linking land-based activities to their effects on coastal resources.
- Thank you for listening.
- Ocean Watch is modular product for enhancing integrated ocean management, with modules created for specific needs raised by the community The underlying ethos is to provide a data resource that delivers multisectoral data in a curated format to support a user’s understanding of complex issues as much as their access to the necessary data for managing those issues The platform aligns with both the decade of ocean science for sustainable development: supporting the flow of data into policy through overcoming limitations highlighted by target users; and the decade for ecosystem restoration: spotlighting where action can be taken and restoration can be linked across the land sea interface [click]
- To meet the key needs we have curated the best available data on land management and ocean states and presented it alongside graphics and contextual information [Click] to support a user understand the issue whilst gathering data and insights on where these pressures are accumulating and resources that may be at risk. The platform provides a profile for every coastal country and territory in the world [click]
- The data is organised into a format that aligns with one way managers mitigate environment risks, the DPSIR framework, as covered very well by Steve. Each profile delivers the data in this narrative to support a user understand the sources of pressure, the movement of pollutants and why the ocean should be protected as a valuable resource
- The profile begins with a series of innovative visualizations that reveal how different land management practices are related to the generation of pressures that effect the ocean. [click] Also highlighting where restoration is an option to mitigate pressures being generated
- Users are then shown how these land based pressures move into the ocean, highlighting problem areas where pollution may cause ecological degradation. [Click] The data used are regularly updating, and the majority provide a significant time series, allowing a user to look back into time and identify patterns and trends
- The narrative ends by highlighting the value of the ocean to humanity, [Click] to reinforce the need to protect it as an essential part of human wellbeing, particularly for coastal communities
- Users also requested that we provide them with a foundational point from which trade off based decision making can be conducted. To meet this need we have provided a mixed data resource. [Click] Using maps to highlight where pressures are generated and where they collide with ecosystems; but also provided economic data in charts to highlight the value of the ocean and its goods and services.
- We have also provided a series of climate data sets to allow users to understand how and where pressures are accumulating and where coastal risks are growing. To delve into how people can make the most of this platform I would like to introduce Chris Corbin from the Cartegena Convention Secretariat to speak a little more about the challenges they face and where ocean watch may play a role in supporting their resolution
- Change on: “Let’s now look at some of the challenges and opportunities from a regional perspective”
- Thanks Chris, we have a Q&A session soon so please make sure to enter any questions to would like Chris to answer. But now I would like to hand over to Jessie Turner from the International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification who will speak about their work and where Ocean Watch may fit in with some of their key outputs.