[Maria Vives-Ingla]

Dear Dario,

Many thanks for introducing the #MedSeaRise project in the conversation and sharing some thoughts on how it could contribute to the goals of this WG.
I’m Maria Vives-Ingla, a research technician from CREAF, one of the organisations coordinating the transfer activities in the Mission. I just finished my PhD on process-based models of the physiological and population responses to climate change of a widespread butterfly. So, I very much agree with you that species’ negative responses to climate change evidence how intimately linked climate change and biodiversity loss are.

The results and the working plan you shared are very relevant and promising! Can I ask you which coastal areas, sub-basins or municipalities you already have data from, and which other areas will you plan to add? If I understood it correctly, the sea level time series you shared was from Malta, and I saw you also published a temperature projection from Nice on LinkedIn.

Do you plan to use these plots and data for awareness-raising and stakeholder engagement? Are they ready to be used, or will you work a bit more on them before? I think some of our APs or other TPs working in the same coastal areas could be interested in checking and using these data and figures. I guess that for potential external users, these data will be available after the publication of the D.1.1.2 and D.2.1.2 you mentioned, right? So, when ready, let us know if you want our help in identifying these partners from the Mission that could be potentially interested in your results.

Then, thinking beyond the Mission, I also read you already identified a lot of stakeholders for the risk assessments you are planning to do during the project. Please, let us know if you would also like our help in identifying and contacting other key stakeholders from the Interreg Euro-MED programme. We could put you in contact with the Mission4SustainableTourism and the Mission4LivingAreas coordinators. For example, similar to our Mission’s Working Groups, the Mission4SustainableTourism launched their MED Clusters, and one of them works around the links between tourism activities and climate change, nature & biodiversity: https://sustainable-tourism.interreg-euro-med.eu/2024/06/17/the-sustainable-tourism-mission-just-released-three-orientation-papers/

Feel free to answer in the forum, so any other interested partner can jump in the conversation, or by email if you would like to discuss it more calmly with your assigned partners and us.

Best regards,

Maria Vives-Ingla (m.vives@creaf.uab.cat)
Annelies Broekman (a.broekman@creaf.uab.cat)

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