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Beyond tipping points: safeguarding biodiversity in a changing ocean

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Initiative

Interactive Lunch Event | Mama Shelter, Nice | 11 June, 13:15 – 14:45

Join us for an interactive lunch session to challenge your understanding of biodiversity and ocean change! Marine biodiversity is threatened by global and local pressures such as ocean warming, acidification, overfishing, and pollution. Scientists are often asked to determine tipping points for environmental stressors - critical thresholds beyond which a significant ecological change will take place. While it is tempting to explore the concept of tipping points to inform concrete management actions, it is challenging and complex, especially in the context of multiple environmental threats. Scientists, policy makers and managers will gather to debate common misconceptions around tipping points and discuss alternative concepts.

Programme

13:15 – 13:45

  • Welcome: Lina Hansson, IAEA and Rachel Clausing, Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation
  • Buffet lunch (25 min)
  • Interactive quiz (thought-provocative questions; 5 min) (Limitations of tipping points, multiple stressors, biodiv (complexity)…)

13:45 – Opening/welcome: Florence Descroix-Comanducci, IAEA and Philippe Mondielli, FPA2

13:50 High-level address: Monaco, TBC

13:55 High-level address: TBC

14:00 Setting the stage: Why do we need thresholds?

14:05 – 14:35 Panel discussion

Moderator: Sam Dupont, University of Gothenburg/IAEA OA-ICC

  • Heidi Weiskel, IUCN
  • Philip Boyd, University of Tasmania
  • Traditional knowledge / IPLC perspective, TBD
  • Rep from Planetary Boundaries group, TBD

14:35 Summary: Sam Dupont

14:40 Thank you and closing words, the way forward, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, OACIS chair

Organizing partners:

Ocean Acidification and other Ocean Changes (OACIS) initiative:

  • International Atomic Energy Agency
  • Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation
  • Institut de la Mer de Villefranche
  • Centre Scientifique de Monaco
  • Oceanographic Institute, Prince Albert I of Monaco Foundation
  • Monaco Government
  • IDDRI
  • IUCN