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Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) emerges as a crucial tool for solving complex global challenges. The Global Fishing Watch, a DPI platform, tracks illegal fishing, demonstrating how interoperable digital systems can address issues like biodiversity, climate, and food security. A G20 India report advocates for DPIs potential to accelerate progress across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While DPI offers transformative solutions, challenges like inclusivity, data protection, and pri...

A first-of-a-kind research expedition is pioneering the use of mobile laboratories to understand how Europe’s coastal ecosystems are impacted by environmental factors such as pollution, loss of biodiversity, and climate change.

Ukraine: Multi-agency Donor Coordination Platform for Ukraine kick-starts work - Terrorist content online: Commission takes action to protect people from the risk of online radicalisation and recruitment by extremists - International Day of Holocaust Remembrance: "We must never forget the fate of millions of Jewish people", President von der Leyen says - Biodiversity: Commission to refer six Member States to the Court of Justice for failing to prevent invasive alien species damaging Eu...

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The Arctic Ocean is a hot spot in global climate change. The Arctic region has experienced three to four times more warming than the Earth on average....

Fugro is now an Associated Partner of the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet), a long term EU initiative to make diverse sources of marine data freely and uniformly available to all. Beneficiaries of this work include policy makers, scientists, private industry and the public. The Fugro EMODnet partnership was formalised earlier this week ...

A new survey has given a major boost to efforts to map the entire seafloor by the end of the decade. Nearly 800 professionals representing 90 countries shared views on the value of seabed mapping and where activities to map using modern digital methods should be focused, as well as identifying some key challenges that ...

EU and China Enter Marine Data Partnership - 09/02/2021 This month, EU-China collaborations on marine data and knowledge sharing have taken a new step forward with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) and the National Marine Data and Information Service (NMDIS) of China. The agreement consolidates the operational, technical and scientific collaboration which is already well underway, by providing a clear framework...