Name
The Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative
website
country
United Kingdom
Goal
To drive and support an international scientific collaboration to assist governments and relevant regional and global organisations to identify ecologically or biologically significant areas of the ocean using the best available scientific data, tools and methods.
To provide guidance on how the Convention on Biological Diversity’s EBSA criteria and United Nations resolutions can be interpreted and applied to inform management, including the designation of representative networks of marine protected areas.
To generate new knowledge, develop regional analyses and assist in regional capacity building with relevant organisations and stakeholders.
Main Topic
Biodiversity: preserving and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity
All Topics
Biodiversity: preserving and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity
Scale
- International
Actors
- Not specified
Main Activity
Providing knowledge transfer / advisory / education services;
Activities
- Providing knowledge transfer / advisory / education services
- Conducting research, pilot studies and/or living labs
- Designing policies and/or (management) strategies
- Showcasing and/or demonstrating practices
Source
This initiative was provided by the SGD consortium.
This initiative is self-reported and not identified by the SHARED GREEN DEAL Consortium
CONTACT
For further details please contact co-leads Dr Chris Foulds (chris.foulds@aru.ac.uk) and Dr Rosie Robison (rosie.robison@aru.ac.uk).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101036640. The sole responsibility for the content of this website lies with the SHARED GREEN DEAL HAS project and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.