ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) has made a major input to the latest comprehensive study of UK seas: Charting Progress 2.   ABPmer, in association with EFTEC (Economics for the Environment Consultancy Ltd), prepared the chapter on Productive Seas which explored the economic value of the full range of human activities in the marine area and the pressures and environmental impacts associated with these activities.

Charting Progress 2 is the result of a five-year study into how human uses and other pressures, such as climate change are affecting our seas.  In particular, it pulls together evidence from across the scientific community to measure the progress we have made towards achieving healthy and biologically diverse oceans and seas since the first Charting Progress report in 2005.

The report looks in detail at how climate change has increased sea levels and temperatures and what impacts that change is having on the marine environment; the changes in the habitats and species in our seas; levels of pollution; and marine industries impacting on marine ecosystems.