Transcript (MAES) in the marine environment

MAES and its relation to marine
environmental policies
Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their
Services (MAES) in the marine environment
- Brussels, 19 June 2013 ENV.B.2 – Biodiversity
ENV.B.3 – Nature
ENV.C.2 – Marine environment
EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020:
relevant targets and actions
• T1: Full implementation of Birds, Habitats Dir.
• A1: Complete Natura 2000 network
• A4: Improve, streamline monitoring, reporting
• T2: Maintain, enhance ecosystems + services
• A5: MAES
• A6: Restoration
• A7: No net loss
• T4: Sustainable use of fisheries resources
Mapping and assessment of
ecosystems + services (MAES)
• “Member States, with the assistance of the
Commission, will map and assess the state of
ecosystems and their services in their national
territory by 2014, assess the economic value of
such services, and promote the integration of
these values into accounting and reporting
systems at EU and national level by 2020.”
MAES in the Biodiversity Strategy
Biodiversity Strategy:
common implementation framework
• Overall guidance: BD/Nature Directors (MS + EC)
• Joint meeting with Water/Marine Directors
(Lithuania, December 2013)
• Operational steering: Coordination Group for
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Biodiversity and Nature – CGBN
Target-specific working groups
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Relying on existing structures where possible
 WG GES for Target 4
New WGs where needed, incl. on MAES
WG MAES
• Assembling MS representatives, Commission,
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EEA, external experts, stakeholders
Supported by MESEU contract
5 meetings to date (+ stakeholder workshop
Nov. 2012)
Overseeing development of analytical framework
Launched 6 thematic pilots, incl. marine, to test
analytical framework
To take stock of preliminary pilot results in
Sept. 2013
Overall conceptual framework
Typology of ecosystems:
12 broad types
Terrestrial & fresh water
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Urban
Cropland
Grassland
Woodland & forest
Heathland & shrub
Sparsely vegetated land
Wetlands
Rivers and lakes
Marine
• 9. Marine inlets &
transitional waters
• 10. Coastal
• 11. Shelf
• 12. Open ocean
'MAES marine':
challenges and opportunities
• Concepts
• Variety of ecosystem/habitat classifications, not
fully adapted to marine specificities
•  EEA/ETC-BD cross-walks paper
• Data
• Current shortage of spatially explicit, threedimensional information
• Important information expected from MS
reporting under MSFD
• Need to tap also into other reporting streams,
incl. under CFP, Art. 17 Habitats Dir.
MAES and the MSFD
• The Marine Strategy Framework Directive aims to:
• achieve Good Environmental Status (GES) by 2020
• through an ecosystem-based approach
• enabling sustainable use of marine goods and services
• MSFD can contribute to MAES:
• Provision of ecosystem state assessments and maps
• MSFD can benefit from MAES by:
• Linking assessments of ecosystem services to particular
components of the marine ecosystems
• Demonstrating the benefits of achieving GES for these
components/services
• Support need for measures to achieve GES through
improved ecosystem services (links to costs of a
degraded environment)
MAES and the MSFD – an example
• Achieving GES by 2020 includes:
• All commercial fish and shellfish stocks:
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Within safe biological limits
Population age and size structure indicative of a healthy stock
• All stocks at maximum sustainable yield (MSY)
• Compatible goals for CFP and Target 4 of EU Biodiversity
Strategy
• MAES can:
• Link ecosystem service (food provision) to component
of the marine ecosystems (fish populations)
• Demonstrate benefits of achieving GES (MSY) for
fish/food provision
• Support need for measures to achieve MSY – healthy
stocks, improved food availability, increased efficiency
of fishing industry
Marine Natura 2000 – background
• Habitats and Birds Directives cover some key
components of coastal and marine ecosystems
• Apply to waters where MS exercise sovereign
rights
• Designation and management of Natura 2000
sites across EU marine regions main tool for the
protection/conservation of those features
• Link to MPAs under MSFD
Currently:
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2.341 marine N2000
sites,
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217.464 km² (= ~ 4 %
of EU seas under
national jurisdiction)
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Ongoing progress but
still significant gaps
offshore
Socio-economic benefits from MPAs
under N2000
• Marine Natura 2000 areas and the resources they
support provide provide a wide range of valuable
goods and services:
• Fisheries: fish spawning and feeding
grounds, seafood
• Carbon sequestration, climate regulation
• Recreation and tourism
• Erosion control
• Genetic resources – pharmaceutics
• … and related income and employment generated
• A study on benefits of MPAs in Scottish waters
estimated their goods and services at £6.3 billion
- £10 billion over 20 years.
Marine features: conservation status
Main issues
• Conservation status of marine features very
much 'unknown' (50-70% of assessments)
• Need for more inventories and implementation of
appropriate monitoring schemes
• … and for more cooperation across borders on
monitoring, favourable reference values, status
assessment and conservation objectives
MAES and conservation status
information
• EEA & ETC-BD work on grouping of habitats and
species of EU interest towards the MAES ecosystems classification & how to work with these as
indicators
• Challenges for using Art. 17 data:
• Scale of the assessment (national biogeographical
region/regional sea)
• Lack of marine knowledge
• EU protected habitats and species are only a part
of Europe's biodiversity, particularly in the marine!
Conclusions
• How MAES can support marine environmental
policies
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• How MSFD, N2000 work can contribute to MAES
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