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Draft OSPAR’s MSFD Advice Manual on Biodiversity approaches to determining GES, setting of environmental targets and selecting indicators for MSFD Descriptors 1, 2, 4 and 6 Lisette Enserink (NL) on behalf of ICG-COBAM. Aim and contents of this presentation. Aim
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Draft OSPAR’s MSFD Advice Manual on Biodiversityapproaches to determining GES, setting of environmental targets and selecting indicators for MSFD Descriptors 1, 2, 4 and 6Lisette Enserink (NL) on behalf of ICG-COBAM
Aim and contents of this presentation Aim Inform WG GES on Member States’ MSFD biodiversity work in OSPAR Contents • Covergence of methods and indicators: process and state of development • Products: Advice Manual and workshop reports • Examples of methods for target setting and candidate OSPAR common indicators • Next steps
Process and state of development – what? MSFD requirements: Member States to deliver • July 2012: Initial Assessment, determination of Good Environmental Status and Indicators and related targets; • July 2014: establishment of monitoring programmes; • 2015/2016: development/entry into operation of programme of measures; • 2018: first update and review of (1); • 2020: aim to achieve GES
Process and state of development – what? Biodiversity Descriptors central to GES: • Biodiversity • Non-indigenous species • Food webs • Seafloor integrity Need for coordinated assessment methods, indicators and targets
Process and state of development – how? OSPAR acts as platform for coordination between MS OSPAR • Expert level: Biodiversity Committee (BDC) and its Intersessional Correspondence Group Coordination Of Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring (ICG-COBAM); • Policy level: overall MSFD coordination by ICG-MSFD; • Exchange with HELCOM. EU • Exchange of RSC products: Marine Strategic Coordination Group and related Working Groups, eg. WG on Good Environmental Status.
Advice manual and workshop reports • Two OSPAR workshops (reports available): • Approaches for setting targets and baselines for biodiversity indicators (Utrecht, November 2010); • Comparison of nationally selected indicators and targets and identification of candidates for common OSPAR indicators (Amsterdam, November 2011); • Additional products contribute to common language: terminology, definition of pressures, lists of (protected, threatened) species and habitats, assessment scales, summaries for candidate common indicators (in prep.); • All summarized in OSPAR’s MSFD Advice Manual on Biodiversity – Draft in BDC 2012, living document
Examples of advice • Baseline setting methods • Target setting methods • Candidate common indicators including baselines and targets
Candidate common OSPAR indicators for D1, 2, 4 and 6 • Proposed by MS and discussed/modified and prioritized in 2nd workshop and ICG-COBAM • 41 indicators: habitats (14), fish (8), birds (8), mammals & reptiles (9), NIS (2) • For each indicator: expert judgement on available monitoring, state of development of the metric, level of consensus on baseline and target • Some are operational, but many need further work
Next steps On indicators: • Summarize info per indicator • Further prioritize towards core set • Establish expert groups for further development towards operational indicators: • metrics, baselines/ targets • taking into account (sub)regional variation • Possible involvement of ICES: contribute to further specification and testing (cf. OSPAR EcoQOs) Other issues: • Assessment scales