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EUROPARC
Webinar:
Restoring
our marine environment to tackle
Climate Change
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21st of December at 11:00h
CET (Central European Time)
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Join the final
EUROPARC webinar of 2021!
Or paste
this link into your browser:
webinarmparestorationclimatechange.gr8.com/
It only takes a
minute, it's interesting, open
and free :-)
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Our oceans and seas
play an indispensable role in
climate change
mitigation and adaptation.
However, deterioration of the
marine and coastal
environment is reducing its
ability to do so.
Implementing
measures that restore the
natural capacity of the
environment to mitigate and
adapt to climate change can
help "turn the tide".
Restoring our marine
environment and improving its
biodiversity is imperative if
we want to maintain all the
ecosystem services it
has to offer.
In
this webinar, we will look at
nature restoration projects in
two Mediterranean Marine
Protected Areas. We will
discover how different
environmental factors are
inventoried and how natural
conditions are restored
across the Mediterranean. The
webinar will address the
challenges and solutions
of using nature restoration
for climate change mitigation
and adaptation.
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Webinar
Programme
Welcome
and
Introduction
to the webinar
By Isa Vroom, EUROPARC
Policy
Assistant.
LIFE
ADAPTABLUES
project:
Adaptation to
climate change
through
management and
restoration of
European
estuarine
ecosystems
By Inés
Mazarrasa
- Researcher at
the
Environmental
Hydraulics
Insititute,
IHCantabria,
of the
Universidad de
Cantabria
(Spain).
The
project aims
to support the
conservation
and
restoration
of estuarine
ecosystems in
Europe as a
strategy
to enhance
adaptation to
climate
change in
coastal areas
of the
Atlantic
coast. To do
so, they are
developing
technical
methodologies
and tools to
estimate
coastal
protection and
carbon
sequestration
services
provided by
estuarine
habitats
across five
different
estuaries in
Europe,
including an
inventory of
carbon
deposits and
burial rates.
The project
includes the
restoration of
a saltmarsh in
Portugal.
ROC-POPLife
and ReLife
By Lorenzo
Merotto
- Marine
Biologist.
ROC-POPLife
is a project
aimed to
trigger the
restoration
and growth of
the
Cystoseira, a
type of brown
algae.
Cystoseira
plays a key
role in marine
conservation
supporting
biodiversity,
food webs, and
sequestrating
large amount
of CO2.
ROC-POPLife
has strong
links with the
ReLife
project, which
aims to bring
back the
Patella
ferruginaea, a
mollusk
species.
Lorenzo will
speak about
the impacts of
both these
projects.
Lets talk about it
All participants will
have the
chance to ask
questions
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Inés
Mazarrasa
Inés has a PhD in
Marine Ecology. She works as a
researcher
at the Environmental
Hydraulics Insititute,
IHCantabria, of the
Universidad de
Cantabria (Spain). Her
research focuses on assessing
the capacity of coastal
ecosystems (mainly seagrass
meadows and saltmarshes) to
act as carbon sinks and
the potential of their
restoration and conservation
for Climate Chang
mitigation.
Lorenzo
Merotto
Lorenzo
is a marine biologist.
Since 2017 he has been working
for Portofino Marine Protected
Area as a Science Technician.
His work is focused on EU
projects, both from the
technical and
administrative point of view.
He works on different climate
change projects
such as Interreg Med MPAdapt,
Interreg Med MPEngage and
FutureMares. He also
carries out field work on
monitoring and community
engagement.
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