Données économiques maritimes françaises 2007: La mer a de l'avenir

URL Texte intégral : http://www.ifremer.fr/docelec/doc/2007/rapport-6175.pdfLancée il y a dix ans, la publication biennale des Données économiques maritimes françaises (DEMF) analyse les activités maritimes en France dans leur diversité. Elle en évalue le poids économique à partir d'un jeu d'indicateurs mis à jour régulièrement. Cette synthèse des DEMF 2007 dégage les principaux aspects des activités liées à la mer en France sous la forme de « fiches » sectorielles fournissant les données de production, d'emploi et d'effort budgétaire des années récentes. Le secteur marchand comprend l'exploitation des ressources marines, le manufacturier, les services. Le secteur public comprend la Marine, l'intervention publique, l'éducation, la protection de l'environnement littoral, la recherche marine

Données économiques maritimes françaises 2009

Disponible sur Archimer : "French marine economic data 2009 " http://archimer.ifremer.fr/search.jsp?record=0L'ouvrage dresse un bilan complet, au plan national, des activités liées à la mer et évalue leur importance économique. Ces activités sont définies selon trois catégories : les industries utilisatrices du milieu marin, les industries fournissant à la catégorie précédente services et biens d'équipement et les services publics leur fournissant assistance, protection et connaissances. Sans équivalent en langue française, ce livre s'achève par une synthèse sur l'évolution de l'économie maritime au cours du temps et sur sa sensibilité à la conjoncture internationale

CO2 capture, transport and storage research facilities from the French node of ECCSEL available for access by the European scientific community

International audienceECCSEL, the European Research Infrastructure on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, has been initiated in 2010 and is being transformed into a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), a legal entity with statutory seat in Trondheim, Norway. The objective is to establish and operate world-class distributed research facilities and give the European CCS community (primarily), and non-European CCS communities access to these resources. France, a founding member of the ECCSEL ERIC, is offering access to several outstanding research facilities: one CO2 capture pilot (EDF’s CO2 Capture Pilot, Le Havre), one CO2 transport platform (INERIS’s CO2 Transport Platform, Mont La Ville), one underground laboratory (Andra’s Underground Research Laboratory, Bure), one site for shallow CO2 injection experiments (INERIS’ Shallow CO2 Injection Site, Catenoy), one bio-reactor at high temperatures and pressures (BRGM’s BIOREP reactor, Orléans), one mobile equipment for gas measurements on site (IFPEN’s Mobile ESCORT Station), one laboratory for advanced gas analyses (IFPEN’s GasGeochem Laboratory, Rueil-Malmaison). In addition, a semi-industrial CO2 transport loop is being designed (TOTAL’s COOTRANS CO2 Transport Loop, Lacq)

Conceptualising marine biodiversity mainstreaming as an enabler of regional sustainable blue growth: the case of the European Atlantic area

After recognizing the importance of marine and coastal resources and the use of marine space for economic growth, the European Union (EU) created and implemented a long-term Blue Economy (BE) strategy that supports the development of traditional and emerging marine and maritime sectors, aiming at the enhancement of Blue Growth (BG). However, despite the existence of a robust policy framework that supports the expansion of BE sectors at both an EU Sea Basin and state level, scholars have been sceptical as to whether the pursuit of BG adequately addresses the challenges that usually come with economic development, including those of climate change and marine biodiversity loss. Various frameworks for integrating sectoral goals with each other and with environmental goals that could facilitate the transition towards Sustainable Blue Growth (SBG) already exist and have been suggested and promoted by the European Commission, such as Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) and Marine Spatial Planning (MSP). They require the consideration of marine ecosystems and biodiversity and their protection as one of the BE sectors to be integrated via planning and management, which in turn requires the estimation of the value of ecosystem services and the spatial implications thereof. Nonetheless, there is little evidence or real-world examples on whether and how ecosystems, and within them coastal and marine biodiversity, are actually integrated (i.e., mainstreamed) when developing sectoral policies and planning and implementing economic activities at sea at various scales, i.e., local, national, and regional, and what the necessary steps and actions are that would facilitate such mainstreaming. By seeking evidence in EU and Atlantic Arc (AA) member states’ sectoral policies on marine tourism, ports and shipping, marine renewable energy, and fisheries and aquaculture (as promoted by the Atlantic Maritime Strategy and its corresponding action plans) and in the outcomes of the Interreg Atlantic Funded Research Project MOSES (aiming at valuating a Sustainable Blue Economy at the national and regional scale of the EU AA), the present article focused on understanding if and how marine biodiversity is taken into consideration by EU and AA BE and/or BG policies, strategies, and sectoral developments. Τhe selected sectoral policies demonstrate a good uptake of marine-ecosystem- and biodiversity-related challenges; however, at both the EU and the AA member-state level, it is unclear whether and how marine ecosystems and biodiversity are addressed as a separate BE sector. As such, we argue why and how Marine Biodiversity Mainstreaming (MBM) could address this gap, and hence it could contribute to planning, implementing, and managing maritime economic activities towards SBG at the Sea Basin level. This is demonstrated by illustrating the central role of MBM in enabling (and being further enabled by) the above integrative frameworks (i.e., MSP and EBM) and by presenting the key elements and actions required for such facilitation