European Marine Board launches new publications on coastal resilience and blue carbon

The European Marine Board (EMB) launched two new publications, the Position Paper (No. 27) "Building Coastal Resilience in Europe" and the Policy Brief (No. 11) "Blue Carbon: Challenges and opportunities to mitigate climate and biodiversity crises", at the EurOCEAN2023 conference held in Vigo, Spain, on October 10 and 11. FCT is a member of the EMB and was represented by Sofia Cordeiro, coordinator of the Ocean Program.

The documents were released at a session moderated by the co-chair of the EMB Working Group on Coastal Resilience, Kristin Richter, with presentations by Sebastian Villasante, Chair of the EMB Working Group on Coastal Resilience, and Natalie Hicks, member of the EMB Working Group on Blue Carbon. There was also an intervention by Portuguese researcher Ana Isabel Lillebø from CESAM / University of Aveiro, as an expert in the working group that drafted the publication on coastal resilience.

The EMB's mission is to develop common positions among European organizations that carry out and fund research in marine sciences on scientific strategies and priorities for this area, thereby facilitating and promoting collaboration between this area and other socio-economic agents. The lines of action of this European organization are based on four pillars: Forum, Synergies, Strategy and Voice. Other EMB publications can be found here.