{"id":49,"date":"2015-06-30T13:04:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T11:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/?p=49"},"modified":"2016-02-03T10:48:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T09:48:46","slug":"the-living-north-sea-initiative-linsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"The Living North Sea Initiative (LiNSI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Since 2010, I have been leading the\u00a0Living North Sea Initiative (LiNSI).\u00a0The Living North Sea Initiative (LiNSI) is a North Sea wide, science-based, multi-stakeholder project that aims to explore and facilitate implementation of new opportunities for restoring a healthy and rich North Sea ecosystem. LiNSI is inspired by Rigs-to-Reef and ecosystem restoration programmes elsewhere in the world. It explores whether it might be possible to both reduce decommissioning costs and protect the ecosystems that have developed on and around oil and gas structures (steel jackets), and then to use part of these cost-savings to invest in active ecosystem protection and the transition to sustainable use of marine resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cropped-Naamloos.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cropped-Naamloos-220x300.png\" alt=\"cropped-Naamloos.png\" width=\"284\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cropped-Naamloos-220x300.png 220w, https:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cropped-Naamloos-751x1024.png 751w, https:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cropped-Naamloos.png 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a>The <em><strong>mission<\/strong> <\/em>of the LiNSI programme is to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Catalyse protection, restoration and the transition to sustainable use of the North Sea<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Allow for decommissioning to be done in the best way for environment and safety<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Facilitate open collaboration and knowledge sharing between stakeholders across the North Sea to develop innovative policies and business models.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Want to know more?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Narrative-Living-North-Sea-Initiative_D02.pdf\">The Story of Living North Sea Initiative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2010, I have been leading the\u00a0Living North Sea Initiative (LiNSI).\u00a0The Living North Sea Initiative (LiNSI) is a North Sea wide, science-based, multi-stakeholder project that aims to explore and facilitate implementation of new opportunities for restoring a healthy and rich North Sea ecosystem. LiNSI is inspired by Rigs-to-Reef and ecosystem restoration programmes elsewhere in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,7],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-linsi","tag-living-north-sea-initiative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoeffective.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}