OOSC 2025: Adrien Comte participates in mapping “ocean solutions” to address climate challenges

OOSC 2025: Adrien Comte participates

in mapping “ocean solutions” to address climate challenges

Adrien Comte, co-leader of the BRIDGES IMPACT project, participated in a pioneering study presented by Devi Veytia at the OOSC on June 3 at 10:30 a.m.: “Mapping the evidence of ‘ocean-based solutions’ to address climate challenges.”

This research, the result of international collaboration, provides a unique mapping of nearly 45,000 scientific publications on ocean-based solutions for greenhouse gas mitigation and climate change adaptation. It uses the latest advances in artificial intelligence to analyze and synthesize the state of knowledge on the implementation and effectiveness of these options.

The results highlight disciplinary silos that limit understanding of the synergies and trade-offs between different solutions, a geographical bias in research concentrated outside the most vulnerable coastal countries, and major gaps in certain ecosystems and climate impacts. The study identifies four priority areas for research:

The articulation of science, policy, and deployment of solutions,
The impacts of these solutions on biodiversity,
The effectiveness of restoration measures in terms of climate,
The adaptation of fisheries to a changing ocean.

These conclusions echo the objectives of BRIDGES, which aims in particular to identify and evaluate adaptation strategies for small-scale fishing socio-ecosystems in the southwestern Indian Ocean in the face of climate change. This work is carried out through equitable interdisciplinary and international scientific partnerships.

Other researchers closely involved in BRIDGES participated in this study, including Joachim Claudet, co-director of the program, and Marie Bonnin.

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Adrien Comte is an IRD scientist based at the LEMAR research unit in Brest and will be the co-leader of the BRIDGES IMPACT tageted project. He is an ecological economist and sustainability scientist whose research
focuses on the challenges of measuring sustainability and evaluating climate change mitigation and adaptation policies in marine social-ecological systems. Adrien Comte also has extensive experience at the interface between science and policy through consulting work for the FAO, policy briefs with the Ocean & Climate Platform or involvement with working groups with the French Biodiversity Office, the National
Biodiversity Observatory and the Ministry in charge of environmental affairs. More recently, Adrien has worked on several projects involving the development of indicators, dashboards and accounting systems for enhanced measurement of the sustainability of different territories and
countries to assess public policies and provide scientific input for decision-makers. He has published a dozen interdisciplinary and international research articles.