Transcript Water information basis

The EEA marine and coastal work
programme – what are we going to do in
2011?
Trine Christiansen
Project manager
Workshop objective:
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To discuss the future EEA marine and
coastal assessments, data and indicator
set in the light of the recent developments
of the Marine Strategy Framework
Directive.
2010: Year for publication of EEA State
of the Environment report
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Part A provides a long-term explorative, crosscutting assessment of key global mega-trends
• Part B provides Europe-wide
assessments of 12
environmental themes
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Part C provides country-level assessments of the
environmental situation in individual countries
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A SOER 2010 Synthesis provides an assessment
based on Parts A, B and C
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Nutrient enrichment, heavy metals and
persistent organic contaminants continues to
be a major problem in the coastal and marine
environment in all Europe’s seas.
NE Atlantic
Baltic Sea
North
Denmark (20)
Estonia (5)
Finland (93)
Germany (14)
Latvia (8)
Lithuania (13)
Poland (16)
Sweden (32)
Open sea (67)
Belgium (16)
Denmark (13)
France (1)
Germany (24)
Netherlands (20)
Norway (8)
Sweden (10)
Open sea (81)
United Kingdom
Ireland (85)
Open sea (35)
Croatia (13)
Greece (6)
Italy (2)
Open sea (0)
0%
Decrease
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Change in P-concentration
20%
40%
60%
80% 100%
% of stations
No trend
Increase
Mediterranean
Sea
Mediterranean
NE Atlantic
Baltic Sea
North Sea
Change in N-concentration
Denmark (20)
Estonia (5)
Finland (93)
Germany (15)
Latvia (8)
Lithuania (13)
Poland (14)
Sweden (35)
Open sea (67)
Belgium (21)
Denmark (13)
France (1)
Germany (24)
Netherlands (20)
Norway (8)
Sweden (10)
Open sea (81)
France (3)
Ireland (85)
United Kingdom
Open sea (35)
Croatia (13)
Greece (6)
Italy (2)
Open sea (0)
0%
20%
40%
60%
% of stations
Decrease
No trend
Increase
80%
100%
Nutrient enrichment, heavy metals and
persistent organic contaminants continues to
be a major problem in the coastal and marine
environment in all Europe’s seas.
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Unsustainable fishing occurs in all European
Seas and is threatening the viability of
European fish stocks.
Safe biological limits
Maximum Sustainable Yield
100
90
80
Share (%)
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Year
Share of stocks fished at or below MSY
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Share of catch above the MSY level
Climate change is causing sea surface
temperatures and sea level to rise and they
likely to rise further – and oceans are
becoming more acidic
1.5
1
0.5
0
-0.51860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1960
1980
2000
2020
-1
-1.5
-2
Global ocean
Baltic Sea
North Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea
30.0%
Difference from average (%)
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
1975
-10.0%
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
-20.0%
-30.0%
-40.0%
Year
March
7
September
2005
2010
2015
Climate change is causing sea surface
temperatures and sea level to rise and they
likely to rise further – and oceans are
becoming more acidic
1.5
1
0.5
0
-0.51860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1960
1980
2000
-1
-1.5
-2
Global ocean
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Baltic Sea
North Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea
2020
Designation of coastal and marine Natura
2000 sites has been slow. The conservation
status of many coastal and marine habitats
and species still needs to be assessed
Marine Natura 2000 sites
Status of marine species
Fish (39)
FV
Invertebrates (6)
Unknown
U1
U2
Mammals (64)
Reptiles (12)
0%
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20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
New EU policy context: Ecosystem
based management
Coastal area
EU Integrated Maritime Policy, incl. CFP
Marine Strategy Framework Directive for the Protection
and Conservation of the
Marine Environment
Marine Protected Areas
(e.g. Natura2000)
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Water Framework Directive
Cyclical approach of Marine Strategy
Framework Directive
6 year cycle
To be repeated every 6 years
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Criteria for GES
• Published September 1, 2010
• 50+ new indicators for the marine
environment
• No inter regional agreement on how to
report
• Major activity to establish reporting
process for data from initial assessments
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Distributing information & knowledge
DATA
INDICATORS
ASSESSMENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SERVICES for
Decision-makers / The public / NGO’s / Researchers
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Integrated Maritime Policy – Marine
knowledge 2020 - has identified Marine
Observations as a need
Policy relevant data
Marine Core Service data
Country data
Research data
E
uropean
Reference layers (maps)
M O
arine
bservation
D NET
ata
Wise-Marine
MSFD
WG-Dike?
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work
The role of GMES – the Marine Core
Service and in-situ data
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Marine core service
provides near real
time data on salinity,
temperature and
ocean currents for all
EU seas
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Based on a
combination of
models, satellite and
in-situ observations
Looking quite far ahead:
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EEA expects to be
tasked with producing
a marine integrated
assessment around
2015.
Discussions and
preparations are
already starting.
Partly the motivation
for maritime Eionet
workshop
Integrated
Marine and maritime
assessment
2015
Major Reports in 2012:
2012 Water
Assessment
2012 Coastal
Report
2012
Eureca
Assessment
All reports are expected to contribute to the European
Environmental policy agenda
Work programme will be structured around data, indicators,
and sub-assessments needed for these outputs
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2012 Water report:
River Basin Mangement Plans published in
2010
ENV
EEA
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Legal interpretation of
RBMPs
Planning larger
studies of content,
but not yet known of
what.
Commission Priority is
’Water Blueprint’ but
content is not yet
known
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Baseline assessment
of presssures state
and trends (based on
RBMPs)
Wants to pursue
putting the baseline
into a wider context,
but how depends on
Commission Priorities
and is likely to point
back at ressource
effeciency
2012 Coastal Report
• Update of 2006 coastal report: Changing
faces of Europe’s Seas
• Contribution to ICZM process
• Regional assessment (led by the land
group)
• Focus on drivers of coastal change and
coastal vulnerability
• Some overlap with 2012 Water Report is
expected
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2012 Eureca assessment
•EEA will publish a 2012
European Ecosystem
Assessment
(EURECA)
•Better expression of
impacts on human
health and socioeconomics
•It has recently been
decided to revise the
structure of this report
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Fig. 1. Global map (A) of cumulative human impact across 20 ocean ecosystem types
B. S. Halpern et al., Science 319, 948 -952 (2008)
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Published by AAAS
Workshop wrap-up
• Presentation of workshop conclusions
• On-line evaluation:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6Y5VFV
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