1. Marine and coastal thematic assessment for the EEA’s 2010 State of the Environment report Trine Christiansen (EEA)

2. What is SOER 2010? SOER 2010 - Synthesis - SOER 2010 - Synthesis - Thematic assessments Understanding climate change Air pollution Biodiversity Water resources: quantity & flows Soil Freshwater quality Consumption and environment Material resources and waste Land use Mitigating climate change Adapting to climate change Marine and coastal environment Assessment of global megatrends Political megatrends Country assessments Urban environment Environmental megatrends Each EEA member country (32) and EEA cooperating country (6) assessed all six environmental themes above. Climate change mitigation Nature protection and biodiversity National and regional stories Freshwater Air pollution Land use Country profiles Common environmental themes Waste Economic megatrends Technological megatrends Social megatrends Soil Land use Marine and coastal environment Soil Land use

3. EEA member countries and seas covered

4. Thematic assessment State of marine ecosystems and habitats Climate change impacts State and impacts of chemical pollution Fisheries Environmental impacts from shipping and other maritime sectors Maritime Policy and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive

5. Nature Conservation: The Habitats and Birds Directives

6. Nutrient Enrichment: winter nitrogen Levels Trends 1985-2008

7. Nutrient Cocentrations: winter phosphate Levels Trends 1985-2008

8. Chl-aconcentrations and trends in ocean color Levels Trends

9. State and trend of 7 hazardous chemicals

10. EU-27 catch

11. Status of fish stocks

12. Supply gap

13. Aquaculture production

14. Shipping Accidental oilspills Illegal operational oil discharges Source: German Federal Pollution Control Authority

15. Development of marine renewable energy Year Cummulative Installations Energy output (MW) 1991 2009 2000

16. Sea level rise Land cover change from 2000-06

17. Sea surface temperature is increasing All European Seas are getting warmer at the surface! Temperatures are increasing more rapidly in Europe’s seas than globally.

18. Plankton are shifting their distributions northward due to warmer temperatures Warm water species are increasingly found in Northerly waters

19. Marine Protected Areas (e.g. Natura2000) Marine Strategy Framework Directive for the Protection and Conservation of the Marine Environment EU Integrated Maritime Policy, incl. CFP Water Framework Directive Coastal area New EU policy context: Ecosystem based management

20. Cyclical approach of Marine Strategy Framework Directive 6 year cycle To be repeated every 6 years

21. Criteria for GES Published September 1, 2010 50+ new indicators for the marine environment No inter regional agreement on how to report Major activity to establish reporting process for data from initial assessments

22. E uropean M arine O bservation D ata NET work Wise-Marine Country data Integrated Maritime Policy – Marine knowledge 2020 - has identified Marine Observations as a need MSFD Research data Policy relevant data Reference layers (maps) Marine Core Service data

23. The role of GMES – the Marine Core Service and in-situ data Marine core service provides near real time data on salinity, temperature and ocean currents for all EU seas Based on a combination of models, satellite and in-situ observations

24. DATA ASSESSMENTS Decision-makers / The public / NGO’s / Researchers ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SERVICES for INDICATORS Distributing information & knowledge

25. 25 Wise-Marine Concept/process currently being discussed Reference layers Indicator 2,3,4,… Indicator 2,3,4,… Indicator 1 Indicator 1 Marine Indicator Products Methodologies (as agreed in indicator working group) Datafeeds or reference sources (examples) EIONET EMODNET GMES EIONET EMODNET GMES Marine Conventions National DC’s Common Reference sources Methods and processes by indicator/groups of indicators/themes Data Reporting layer Prepared data GIS, indicator visualisation, and interpretation for wider EU assessments EU Compliance Check Initial assessment Determination of GES Establishments of comprehensive targets Implementation of monitoring programme

26. Over the past 25 years the rate of increase in sea surface temperature in all European seas has been about 10 times faster than the average rate of increase during the past century. In five European seas the warming occurs even more rapidly. In the North and Baltic Seas temperature rose five to six times faster than the global average over the past 25 years, and three times faster in the Black and Mediterranean Seas. Assessment: Analysis: data input: Sea Surface temperature