Recherche & Développement
Projet
NESTORE
- Duration: 36 months(2022-2025)
- Budget: €3,344K
Motivation & Background
With the fast increase of the offshore renewable energy (ORE) sector development in France, a growing concern is emerging on the potential cumulative impacts, at different spatial levels, of the ORE farms and other human activities on the functioning of marine ecosystems. In various legal documents, this concern compels ORE developers to include the cumulative impact assessment in their Environmental Impacts Assessment (EIA). In this context, it is crucial to speed-up the development of adapted operational tools to optimally conduct this foreseen legal obligation. In this process, a French national experts group has established an operational roadmap for conducting an assessment of cumulative impacts in ORE development context. Their recommendations highlight the need to adapt a modelling approach to integrate the cumulative impacts of ORE and other human activities on marine ecosystems functioning.
Objective
- To develop adapted tools to study the cumulative impacts of ORE farms and other human activities on the marine ecosystems functioning
Work planned
A comprehensive analysis of the French National Strategic Documents for marine ecosystems management and a nested mapping of their associated local to regional stakes
Development of a set of nested trophic modelling tools at different spatial scales for the cumulative impact assessment of OREs and other human activities
Improvement of uncertainty consideration in models predictions through coupling different models approach and data availability
A production of different management scenarios integrating local to regional stakes including a mapping of the ecosystem services evolution related to ORE development
Expected results
- Development of a nested series of tools at different spatial scales to address different local to regional stakes for all French maritime areas
- Increased understanding of the various levels of the local to regional stakes and their translation into operational scenarios to guide decision makers
- Guidance and operational protocols for French ORE sector to conduct cumulative impact assessment in near future
Conclusion
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Partners
This project is led by France Energies Marines
Funding
This project received French State funding managed by the National Research Agency under the France 2030 investment plan (ANR-10-IEED-0006-34). It also received financial support from SUD Provence-Alpes-Côtes d’Azur, Normandy and Brittany Regions.
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Ce projet bénéfice de la labellisation du Pôle Mer
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