Marine restoration: why it's everyone's business

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of marine restoration and features Peter Watson from SSEN Transmission.

Marine restoration is the helping hand that nature needs in the battle against biodiversity loss and also a way to offset human impacts in the ocean. But the benefits can be more than ecological. In this episode, we welcome Peter Watson of SSEN Transmission, the company responsible for laying new power cables on our seabed as part of the de-carbonising of our energy grid. There's much more it wants to do, beyond rebuilding the energy infrastructure, with a little help from science. Pete...

People in this episode

Guest: Peter Watson

Topics covered

• marine restoration
• biodiversity loss
• ocean impacts
• energy infrastructure
• de-carbonising energy grid

Keywords

• marine restoration
• biodiversity
• ocean
• energy grid
• SSEN Transmission
• de-carbonising
• human impacts

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Organizations: SSEN Transmission

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