Professor Anamarija Franki:

I thank everybody. We should all work together. We all want the same for our coasts, including the MPAs for salmon, oysters or anything that nature used to have but does not have any more because of us. Our initiative is to work with wind farms and all of the other development activities together and engage with the network of MPAs.

I was fortunate to work on establishing marine protected areas in other parts of the world. That is essential. I could share the experiences of science in areas where we showed how restoration is successful if those areas are no-take zones. If we do not have areas as no-take zones we cannot have adaptations for climate change, biodiversity enhancement or healthy coasts, oceans and the world in general.

How can we work together, with coastal managers, as Mr. Kavanagh said? It is not just a question of funding. Money is out there. We need to work with developers and coastal managers, along with a political approach and vision, on how we want to go forward. In Europe, we are beginning a large biomimicry network to learn from and base our solutions on nature, including how we can incorporate large wind farms that can become sources of biological diversity. We tried that in the United States. It worked in certain areas but not others. We have enough science, technology, power and knowledge of how to do this.

This is the moment for all of us to work together and we have a couple of pilot projects.