ACTNOW

Advancing understanding of Cumulative Impacts on European marine biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services for human wellbeing.

Human activities have created unprecedented, cumulative threats resulting in stunning losses of biodiversity in our oceans. This is leading to well‐documented declines in seafood resources, losses of iconic and culturally valuable habitats, and impacts on the functioning and regulation of global cycles. Robust, science‐based advice is urgently needed to implement actions to halt biodiversity loss and restore natural habitats and ecosystem services. The EU project ACTNOW addresses this challenge by advancing the state‐of‐the‐art in understanding and predicting how multiple stressors and cumulative human impacts influence marine biodiversity. And in addition the direct and indirect consequences on ecosystem functions and contributions vital for human wellbeing.

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ACTNOW is a state-of-the-art work programme that provides regulators and decision-makers the knowledge and fit-for-purpose tools they need to combat bio-diversity loss in coastal and marine habitats threatened by climate change interacting with other local and regional drivers.​​  Our key actions are to reveal areas of high biodiversity and climate value, recommend effective conservation actions to be implemented, promote better respect for nature in public and business decision-making,  and thus be a world leader in tackling the global biodiversity crisis.

You can read more about our research program, our progress and all the partners involved in this consortium on our ACTNOW-website https://www.actnow-project.eu/