{"id":3181,"date":"2026-01-30T18:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/?post_type=events&#038;p=3181"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:34:20","slug":"sea-seminar-13-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/events\/sea-seminar-13-5-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Seminar: BOOST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e8779ad0980fa26bbcb29fabc7539f9\">Sea Seminar: BOOST<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" style=\"padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">Dr. Panu Halme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">In this Sea Seminar, Dr. Panu Halme will present insights from the project <a href=\"https:\/\/boostbiodiversityoffsets.fi\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BOOST \u2013 Biodiversity Offsetting as an Operational Tool for a Just Sustainability Transition Towards No Net Loss of Ecosystems and Biodiversity<\/a>. Halme is Research Professor at the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) and Consortium Lead of BOOST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">There is unequivocal scientific consensus regarding the ongoing environmental crisis and strong global political ambition to halt biodiversity loss. Still, we are systematically failing at national-level implementation: globally, none of the Aichi biodiversity targets designed to stop biodiversity loss by 2020 were met. The BOOST project facilitates the mainstreaming and enabling of a just transition toward the adoption of biodiversity offsets in Finland and globally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Biodiversity offsetting (ecological compensations) refers to compensating for biodiversity losses caused by ecologically harmful human activities by generating biodiversity gains elsewhere through concrete actions in nature. BOOST&#8217;s more specific tasks include developing a national offset register, biodiversity accounting, and a comprehensive, functional offsetting system. The research project is funded by the Strategic Research Council of Finland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">More information on the talk will be updated here closer to the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><em>The Sea Seminar series is a collaboration between the \u00c5AU profiling area <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abo.fi\/en\/the-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Sea<\/a> and SOS. The seminars are organized once a month with a hybrid setup (<a href=\"https:\/\/aboakademi.zoom.us\/j\/68531310082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click here<\/a> for online participation), and they are open to everyone interested in marine and sustainability issues.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea Seminar: BOOST Dr. Panu Halme In this Sea Seminar, Dr. Panu Halme will present insights from the project BOOST \u2013 Biodiversity Offsetting as an Operational Tool for a Just Sustainability Transition Towards No Net Loss of Ecosystems and Biodiversity. 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