Jennifer McGowan, Research Professor, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, is a contributor on Monitoring, Measuring, and Tracking Progress Towards Nature Positive for the Ocean, a new publication in World Wildlife Fund.
A brief summary follows:
This new report on best practices for monitoring nature positive ocean pathways provides guidance to the blue economy sectors on how to track their Nature Positive actions. Healthy oceans matter for all life on earth, and a collective effort to support and sustain them is imperative to a healthy planet. This report ensures companies are taking actions to avoid or reduce negative biodiversity impacts as well as moving the blue economy sectors in the right direction as a whole.
Says McGowan: Taking actions with positive ocean biodiversity impacts, and properly tracking and reporting on those actions, supports a healthy ocean and healthy economy.
McGowan offers the following acknowledgements:
Leah Gerber, Professor in School of Life Sciences and Founding Director of Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, was also a contributor to the Monitoring, Measuring, and Tracking Progress Towards Nature Positive for the Ocean report.
Jennifer McGowan was also a case study author on two other recent reports on oceans from WWF as part of her work with Nature Matters: