Center for Coastal & Marine Studies
SAVE THE DATE: 26 April WWF and S&D webinar on offshore renewable energy
WWF, together with MEP César Luena, European Commission and Chris Davies, invite you to RSVP for this webinar on 26 April 2022, 9:30am - 11:00am CEST.
Offshore renewable energy constitutes an essential part of the EU’s energy transition towards a resilient and fully decarbonised economy, and is indispensable in achieving a climate neutral Europe. However, offshore renewable energy must also be seen through the lens of other activities, particularly safeguarding biodiversity, which is already under pressure from other activities and whose loss contributes to the climate crisis.
We stand at a critical juncture, where policymakers determine the best way forward for harmonious offshore renewable growth and biodiversity recovery. Offshore renewable energy development will only achieve its objective of supporting the EU’s transition towards truly sustainable societies if it offers solutions for the climate crisis that are fully compatible and contribute to a healthy sea, well-being of coastal communities, forward-looking maritime spatial planning, ocean resilience and a just energy transition.
BlueInvest: Commission and EIF agree to mobilise €500 million with new equity fund for blue economy
At the BlueInvest Days 2022 in Brussels, Commissioner Virginius Sinkevičius and European Investment Fund (EIF) Deputy Chief Executive, Roger Havenith have announced a new dedicated equity initiative for the blue economy under InvestEU. The initiative will mobilise an additional €500 million of EU funds for financial intermediaries investing in this sector. Commissioner Sinkevičius also announced that the European Commission’s successful BlueInvest initiative will continue beyond 2022 until 2026.
European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, responsible for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, praised the achievements of the BlueInvest initiative, which in the past 3 years has been highly successful in terms of getting hundreds of SMEs coached and matched with investors. The initiative has led to a large number of financing deals being signed, has strengthened the investment landscape for the blue economy, increased investor awareness and helped bridge the finance gap for blue technology SMEs and start-ups.
Join our Coastal Zone Session at the EGU2022 meeting in May 2022!
The General Assembly 2022 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) is held at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria & Online, from 23–27 May 2022.
Our EGU2022 Session: Coastal zone geomorphologic interactions: natural versus human-induced driving factors (GM6.7) will be held on Tue, 24 May, 15:10–16:37 (CEST), Room 0.16
The session is organized by Margarita Stancheva, Andreas Baas, Hannes Tõnisson, Guillaume Brunier and Giorgio Anfuso.
The session will be conducted for the fourteenth time and is sponsored by the Commissions on Coastal Systems) (CCS) of the International Geographical Union (IGU), http://igu-coast.org/
The registration for the meeting is available now and the early bird on-site registration fee rates are only available until 31st March at 13:00 CE.
As EGU22 is fully hybrid, there are two types of registration available, on-site registration and virtual registration:
• On-site participation - Due to regulations connected to the Hygiene Plan, registration for on-site attendance at EGU22 will close 13.00 CET 14 April 2022. As mentioned above, early-bird rates will be available until 13.00 CET 31 March.
• Virtual participation - Virtual registration is not subject to restrictions, and so is available until 27 May 2022 (the last day of the General Assembly), but we are offering early-bird rates until 13.00 CET 31 March to help with our digital capacity planning.
Follow the link for the GM6.7 session programme: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/43936#Presentations
We are looking forward to see you at our session meeting and to your active participation!
“Baltic countries lead EU for sustainable sea space management, still the nature is at risk”, concludes recent evaluation by WWF
The WWF’s Baltic Ecoregion Programme evaluated Baltic EU Member States’ Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) strategies for sustainably managing marine areas and resources and concluded that Baltic countries’ plans at sea still lack harmony across borders, and measures to restore and protect ecosystems are inadequate.
