Unlocking the Full Potential of Digital Twins for Sustainable Ocean Futures
Digital twin technology holds significant promise in developing solutions to mitigate the damage caused by climate change and facilitating the transition to greener alternatives. The European Commission is leveraging this technology to create a digital twin of the ocean (DTO), a highly accurate digital model aimed at facilitating studies, improving decision-making, and providing essential ocean data. The ERC-funded TwinPolitics project seeks to address concerns surrounding the socio-technical aspects of DTOs and their use in national and international contexts. The project aims to investigate current challenges related to development, access, security, legal considerations, and necessary regulations. Additionally, it will develop a methodological approach to address these challenges and ensure the effective use of DTOs.
Exploring how Digital Twins Shape Multilateral Environmental Negotiations
Alice Vadrot and her research group will combine methods from ethnography and computational social science and apply them to digital ocean twins in the EU, China and the USA. In order to identify which features of digital twins promote inclusion, diversity and equity, ethnographic data will be collected at different policy levels and from a variety of research sites.
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Driving the ‘Operationalization’ of BBNJ: How to Better Position Science and Address Data Needs
Wenwen Lyu summarizes the second week of BBNJ negotiations at the UN headquaters in New York and analyzes the most pressing issues setting up the institutional design of a future regime.
Save the date – Side Event on the EU-DTO at UNOC 2025
We are excited to share the first "Save the Date" for our Side event at this year's United Nations' Ocean conference in Nice. Our panel will include high level diplomats
Ocean Seminar Second Session on 30th April – The ongoing construction of the EU Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO)
We are thrilled to invite you to our second session of TwinPolitics Ocean Seminar Series on Wednesday, 30th April 2025, from 17:00 to 18:30 (CET). Our guest speaker, Alain Arnaud,
Setting up institutions during the first BBNJ PrepCom: How Far have we come?
Wenwen Lyu reports live from the first week of the BBNJ Prep-Com in New York and summarizes the discussions around forming institutions around the benchmark 2023 agreement leading up to the Ocean conference.
Big challenges, careful progress, and last-minute drama in deep-sea mining negotiations
Emil W. Hildebrand follows the Council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) 30th Session in Kingston, Jamaica, which discussed the future of deep-sea mining and which led to a last minute surprise.
Join our team: Student assistant position within the ERC project “TwinPolitics”
Are you interested in environmental governance and working on cutting edge political science research on the future of international negotiations regarding marine ecology? Emerging digital twin technology holds promise in
