| What do we do? - Outreach |
EPOCA released 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 are 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:
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
Nicola Barnard, 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
