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Reference User Group (RUG)

 

NEW! EPOCA will release a special introductory guide for policy advisers and decision makers, "Ocean Acidification - the facts".

 

The EPOCA consortium combines the expertise of more than 100 scientists from different fields of marine research. The results of this multi-disciplinary collaboration will be presented to the non-scientific community (business leaders, organisations and the general public) to inform about the risks and what we can do to avoid the tipping points1 related to ocean acidification (in terms of CO2 emissions targets). The EPOCA strategy aims to contribute high quality science directly to expert groups and committees, to feed information directly to policy-makers through government and intergovernmental committees, to give clear information to the media with scientists knowledgeable in communication and through the formation of the EPOCA Reference User Group (RUG) of targeted stakeholders.

The RUG, chaired by Dr. Dan Laffoley (Natural England and IUCN), is working with EPOCA to examine in detail the user related issues (the types of data, analyses and products that are most useful to managers, policy advisors, decision makers and politicians, the format and nature of key messages arising from the EPOCA research, and the dissemination procedures) RUG members also feedback key science developments into their own sector/parent organisation during the life time of the project.

EPOCA will produce a final synthesis report in a format and language suitable for policy-makers, that identifies thresholds, new states, risks to the marine environment and potential feedback to climate and associated uncertainties, probabilities and thresholds with IPCC AR4 mitigation and non-mitigation scenarios and pathways to CO2 stabilisation.

 1 the critical points (thresholds) in an evolving situation that leads to a new and irreversible development (state).
 

RUG members:RUG members at the kick-off meeting


Dan Laffoley (chair), Natural England and the International Union for Conservation of Nature

Berrien Moore, Climate Central

Carl Gustaf Lundin,  the International Union for Conservation of Nature

Chris West, United Kingdom Climate Impacts Programme

David Santillo, Greenpeace

David Welsh, Rolls-Royce

Ed Urban, Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research

Elisabeth Lipiatou, European Commission

Emily Pidgeon, Conservation International

Evin McGovern, Marine Institute

Gail Cardew, Royal Institution of Great Brittain

Hermann Held, The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

John Baxter, Scottish Natural Heritage

Kevin Noon, Stockholm University 

Kristian Teleki, United Nations Environment Programme- World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Lynne Hale, The Nature Conservancy

Nicolas Bériot, ONERC (Observatoire National sur les Effets du Réchauffement Climatique)

Peter Gullestad, Directorate of Fisheries, Norway

Randy Williams, Canadian Tourism Industry Association 

Tony Espie, BP

Valentina Bosetti, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

William Eichbaum, World Wide Fund for Nature

 

 
 
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