The Workshop on Cumulative Impact Assessments (WKCIA) will meet to provide the basis of advice requested by the Netherland Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management on behalf of the Greater North Sea Basin Initiative (GNSBI), generating deliverables and working on the following Terms of Reference:
- Provide an overview of relevant cumulative impact assessments aimed at an applied setting and informing management decisions;
- Define common principles for cumulative impact assessments in relation to the expected applications and the types of management decisions that need to be informed on the Greater North Sea Basin level, and identify criteria for the evaluation of the available cumulative impact assessments; and
- Provide recommendations for the application of the most suitable tool(s) for the cumulative impact assessment on, at least, the Greater North Sea and Celtic Seas with the aim to answer the key questions conducted by the GNSBI WT-CIA (working track – cumulative impact assessments), and include a process to further develop the required knowledge base with the aim to:
- Identify the main anthropogenic threats that compromise the achievement of good environmental status (GES);
- Evaluate planning scenarios of offshore wind and other human activities; and
- Inform maritime spatial planning (MSP) decision-making on a sea basin level.
In regard to other processes which the workshop would like to further develop, two brief online stakeholder workshops are included in the process to explicitly cover the 'science-policy interface' and solicit input from those making the management decisions.
Registration
This workshop is open to participation. If you are interested in attending, please register your interest by 02 May 2025 by filling out this short questionnaire.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate in reaching out to Anna Ellendersen at ICES Secretariat.
It would greatly assist with planning the workshop if, when you register, you could also include a brief overview of what you are most interested in contributing/your primary expertise in relation to the workshop (please see Terms of Reference above).
Note: If the workshop is oversubscribed, ICES reserves the right, in consultation with the workshop chairs, to select the final workshop participants based on their expertise and geographical distribution.
