Researchers from ACTNOW consortium shared insights about the science made up to now, and how it contributes to understand future climate change in ocean, mitigation possibilities, climate-ready biodiversity policy and effective collaboration among EU projects.

The 57th European Marine Biology Symposium was held in Naples, Italy from the 16th to 20th September. The theme of this edition was "from the past to the future technologies for facing the challenges of marine biodiversity lost", motivated by the conviction that, despite the unprecedented changes of marine habitats and biodiversity driven by multiple interacting stressors throughout the global ocean, is still possible to find solutions capable of containing the biodiversity loss. Researchers from ACTNOW consortium participated in diverse conferences. Prof. Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, University of Pisa, and Dr. Gil Rilov, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, gave each one a keynote talks highlighting ACTNOW science. Dr. Rilov was invited speaker in the Multiple Stressors and Climate Change conference and shared his work “Tropicalization: a powerful engine of ocean change, and a conservation challenge", while Prof. Benedetti-Cecchi presented "From large to small and back to large again: embracing multiple scales to understand resilience and stability of reef assemblages” in the Pattern of changes in marine ecosystems conference.

Isabel Sousa Pinto, from the Centre for Marine and Environmental Research, organized the panel discussion “Improving cooperation between projects on addressing policy & stakeholders needs (Nature Restoration Law, marine biodiversity protection & MSFD)”, and spoke about "Project collaboration for stakeholder engagement and dissemination”.
Finally, Prof. Myron Peck, ACTNOW scientific coordinator, from NIOZ, gave his perspectives on how ACTNOW can contribute to climate-ready biodiversity policy and effective collaboration among EU projects.

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