Abstract
Ocean Energy Systems (OES)-Environmental has released a draft of the OES-Environmental 2024 State of the Science Report: Environmental Effects of Marine Renewable Energy Development Around the World for public comment.
If you would like to provide feedback on the draft report, please complete this review form by 28 June 2024. We are looking for substantive comments on the report content and not for edits on wording, report formatting, or formatting of references. Those aspects will be standardized for the final report.
The draft report serves as an update to the 2020 State of the Science Report and features several new sections, including resources to advance marine renewable energy and moving beyond stressor-receptor interactions.
Executive Summary (coming soon)
1. Marine Renewable Energy and Ocean Energy Systems
2. Progress in Understanding Environmental Effects of Marine Renewable Energy
Section B: Updating the State of the Science
3. Marine Renewable Energy: Stressor-Receptor Interactions
Section C: Human Dimensions of MRE
4. Social and Economic Effects of Marine Renewable Energy
5. Stakeholder Engagement for Marine Renewable Energy
Section D: Resources to Advance MRE
6. Strategies to Aid Consenting Processes for Marine Renewable Energy
7. Education and Outreach Around Environmental Effects of Marine Renewable Energy
8. Marine Renewable Energy Data and Information Systems
Section E: Beyond Stressor-receptor Interactions
9. Beyond Single Marine Renewable Energy Devices: A Systems-Wide Effects Approach
10. Environmental Effects of Marine Renewable Energy in Tropical and Subtropical Ecosystems
Section F: Looking Ahead
11. Summary and Path Forward
Short Science Summaries (coming soon)