Fiona Grant reads the Outcome Statement - read it here www.marine.ie/sites/defaul...
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Sheila Heymans
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Executive Director of the European Marine Board. Professor of Ecosystem Modelling at UHI, Scotland. Ocean lover.
@sheilaheymans.bsky.social@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialStefan Fritz: this panel gives a wider view on why science diplomacy is needed. Our resources are our scientific integrity! New data and our ability to conceptually frame things and how we relate to the ocean.
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialPolicy is driven by decision makers and policy makers. Generally policy makers do not know enough about ocean policies such as #BBNJ ! Business is not a religion that you have to scale.
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialKate: growth currently is deeply institutionalised and does not include sustainability. Examples: tourism is biggest growth industry for blue economy. Blue biotech - very little growth has been seen in maritime countries. Energy and MSP, cannot just be just about MPAs and ORE!
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialMike: Ireland’s maritime domain should be seen as a critical infrastructure for Ireland. Important to Choke points. Gas interconnectors are important to worry about. Climate change has changed storms in the last 20 years.
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialBrendan Flynn: we went from multilateralism to multipolarity which has caused huge problems to the world. Most thinking on security is to militarisation, the biggest security problem is actually climate change. !
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@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialUltimately we only have one Ocean!
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialThe climate is changing so we need a roling list of measures.
And we do not have a good handle on how the #AMOC will change and how fast. And how this will change Europe!
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialGerard McCarthy talks about shaping the future Atlantic, science diplomacy, governance and geopolitical change! the vulnerability to climate change with storm surges, transport of food, information. As @emarineboard.bsky.social will highlight in WG submarine cables www.marineboard.eu/submarine-ca...
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialThe ocean is not outs to spend but ours to belong to!
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialBlue spaces are health infrastucture - #LiquidTherapy ! Greatest gain is found for the ones that has the least. A 1:7 EUR return on investment!
Write #BlueHealth into the policies.
The deficit is not in data but in relationships!
Listen longer than you talk!
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialEaskey Britton gives reflections on Blue Wellbeing @easkeysurf… #BlueHealth !
Lesson:
1. How you meet the wave matters!
2. The wave is bigger than you.
3. Read the ocean before you can speak for it.
Our breathing patterns are different closer to the water.
We are citizens of the sea.
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialPaul: we need to use the best available science and adapt over time. We need to engage active scientists that know the science. We also need to do effective #EIAs
And we need to integrate bioversity policy into climate policy.
And we need to be inclusive.
And we need to find a balance.
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialLouise highlights the importance of #AI computer vision to identify what is there..
And how easy it is to sequence the whole community to figure out who is there and what they do… read about it in the new @emarineboard.bsky.social document that will come out in November. share.google/MgzZZg34UtIb...
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialPanel discussion: Louise Allcock @universityofgalway.bsky.social Murray Roberts #UEdinburgh, Maeve Edwards #IrishSeaweedConsultancy, Colm Lordan @icesmarine.bsky.social, Paul Snelgrove - Louise is chair of the @emarineboard.bsky.social WG on Biomolecular approaches www.marineboard.eu/biomolecular...
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialTools achieved to address the healthy ocean. And much more data than before. With cooperation and new ways to make it work.
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialA wonder ocean, a climate ocean, … and can we have our cake and eat it too? With different policy mechanisms to help! But we don’t know much about the whole ocean.
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialPaul Snelgrove from Memorial University, Canada gives the keynote on a Healthy and Productive Atlantic !
@sheilaheymans.bsky.socialThis morning the @emarineboard.bsky.social is at the #AtlanticSummit in Galway - with an opening talk by wildlife documentary maker Eion Warner! Showing us how basking sharks are coming back after the fisheries of the 1960 in Ireland. #MarineLife!
