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OSPAR’s MSFD Biodiversity Advice Manual: Setting GES Targets & Indicators

Learn about OSPAR’s guidance on determining GES, setting environmental targets, and selecting indicators for MSFD Descriptors 1, 2, 4, and 6. Explore methods, indicators, and examples for target setting, along with the next steps in the process. Discover the central role of Biodiversity Descriptors in achieving GES and the coordination efforts by OSPAR between Member States. Get insights into baseline and target setting methods and candidate common OSPAR indicators for biodiversity assessments.

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OSPAR’s MSFD Biodiversity Advice Manual: Setting GES Targets & Indicators

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  1. Draft OSPAR’s MSFD Advice Manual on Biodiversityapproaches to determining GES, setting of environmental targets and selecting indicators for MSFD Descriptors 1, 2, 4 and 6Lisette Enserink (NL) on behalf of ICG-COBAM

  2. Aim and contents of this presentation Aim Inform WG GES on Member States’ MSFD biodiversity work in OSPAR Contents • Covergence of methods and indicators: process and state of development • Products: Advice Manual and workshop reports • Examples of methods for target setting and candidate OSPAR common indicators • Next steps

  3. Process and state of development – what? MSFD requirements: Member States to deliver • July 2012: Initial Assessment, determination of Good Environmental Status and Indicators and related targets; • July 2014: establishment of monitoring programmes; • 2015/2016: development/entry into operation of programme of measures; • 2018: first update and review of (1); • 2020: aim to achieve GES

  4. Process and state of development – what? Biodiversity Descriptors central to GES: • Biodiversity • Non-indigenous species • Food webs • Seafloor integrity Need for coordinated assessment methods, indicators and targets

  5. Process and state of development – how? OSPAR acts as platform for coordination between MS OSPAR • Expert level: Biodiversity Committee (BDC) and its Intersessional Correspondence Group Coordination Of Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring (ICG-COBAM); • Policy level: overall MSFD coordination by ICG-MSFD; • Exchange with HELCOM. EU • Exchange of RSC products: Marine Strategic Coordination Group and related Working Groups, eg. WG on Good Environmental Status.

  6. Advice manual and workshop reports • Two OSPAR workshops (reports available): • Approaches for setting targets and baselines for biodiversity indicators (Utrecht, November 2010); • Comparison of nationally selected indicators and targets and identification of candidates for common OSPAR indicators (Amsterdam, November 2011); • Additional products contribute to common language: terminology, definition of pressures, lists of (protected, threatened) species and habitats, assessment scales, summaries for candidate common indicators (in prep.); • All summarized in OSPAR’s MSFD Advice Manual on Biodiversity – Draft in BDC 2012, living document

  7. Examples of advice • Baseline setting methods • Target setting methods • Candidate common indicators including baselines and targets

  8. Baseline setting methods

  9. Target setting methods1. Directional or trend-based

  10. 2. Target set at baseline

  11. 3. Target as deviation from baseline

  12. Candidate common OSPAR indicators for D1, 2, 4 and 6 • Proposed by MS and discussed/modified and prioritized in 2nd workshop and ICG-COBAM • 41 indicators: habitats (14), fish (8), birds (8), mammals & reptiles (9), NIS (2) • For each indicator: expert judgement on available monitoring, state of development of the metric, level of consensus on baseline and target • Some are operational, but many need further work

  13. Next steps On indicators: • Summarize info per indicator • Further prioritize towards core set • Establish expert groups for further development towards operational indicators: • metrics, baselines/ targets • taking into account (sub)regional variation • Possible involvement of ICES: contribute to further specification and testing (cf. OSPAR EcoQOs) Other issues: • Assessment scales

  14. Questions?

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