The Northeast Regional Ocean Council today held its Fall 2019 meeting in Portsmouth, NH. The agenda included updates on NROC’s funding status, tribal engagement, activities and opportunities for collaboration from representatives of NROC’s Committees on Ocean Planning, Coastal Hazards Resilience, and Ocean and Coastal Ecosystem Health, highlights and opportunities for collaboration from representatives of the Northeast Regional Association [...]
Archive | December, 2019
OSPAR Species and Habitat Protection Group Holds Meeting in Madrid
The OSPAR Commission’s group on the protection of species and habitats convened in Madrid on Dec. 2-5 to address ways to more effectively protect species and habitats that are threatened and/or declining and to consider several new scoping studies regarding seamounts as biodiversity hotspots in the deep sea and threats to sea turtles in the OSPAR maritime area. OSPAR [...]
NOAA Issues Annual Arctic Report Card
NOAA today announced the release of the agency’s 14th annual Arctic Report Card, which finds that Arctic ecosystems and communities “are increasingly at risk due to continued warming and declining sea ice.” The report card addresses areas including surface air and sea surface temperature, terrestrial snow cover, Greenland ice sheet, sea ice, Arctic ocean primary productivity, tundra greenness, [...]
European Commission Presents “Green Deal”
In an effort designed to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, the European Commission today presented the “European Green Deal” that includes actions to “boost the efficient use of resources by moving to a clean, circular economy and stop climate change, revert biodiversity loss and cut pollution.” Among other things, the European Commission says that [...]
West Coast Ocean Alliance Holds Annual Meeting
The West Coast Ocean Alliance today held its annual meeting in Tacoma, WA. Presentation slides are accessible here. The West Coast Ocean Alliance is a regional ocean partnership, whose predecessors include the West Coast Ocean Partnership, West Coast Governors Alliance on Ocean Health, and West Coast Governors Agreement on Ocean Health. Meeting agenda items included the following, with a detailed [...]
