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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Fine. What I would say is that the question for me is not how many there are, or what they do, but how they come together and where's the coherence across the sector. We've had a parallel discussion in relation to food. We have foods strategies that are…
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
I think Sue wanted to come in. Sue.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Okay.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
But, Jenny, it is something that we can pursue with—
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Maybe not. No, okay. No.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Maybe we need to ask that to those who are sat on the public services boards, in fairness.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
If you've managed to draw it, then please share it with the rest of us, Jenny. Clare, you want to come on this.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Okay, thank you, Clare. Right, we'll move on now, then, to Jenny.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Yes. I'm sure, Sean, that's possible. Yes, okay. Thank you. I'm just mindful we've got about 14 minutes left and two other areas we wish to cover, but, Clare, do you want to say something briefly?
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Yes, thank you, Sue. Data has certainly been peppering our evidence sessions, to say the least, all day today. Thank you for that.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Yes. Okay, thanks, Sean. Certainly, those figures give us a sense of scale and potential. Sue, did you want to come in?
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Okay. We are struggling again with the—
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
There we are, yes.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Yes, absolutely. Thank you, Sue. Joyce, back to you.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Yes. Okay. Thank you, Richard, for that. Sue.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Richard, you wanted to come in, and then Sue as well.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Okay. Yes, a very important point. Thanks, Clare. Okay. Joyce.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Okay. Thank you. Clare, and then I think that we will move on after that.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Okay. Thank you. Richard.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Thank you, Sean. Sue.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Sorry, Sean. The audio isn't great. I don't know whether you can project your voice or maybe speak a little bit more loudly.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
That's fine. Okay, Sean, then, first, and then Sue.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Okay. Sean and Sue have indicated that they wish to add something, and then again I will come back to you, Delyth, if you have anything to add.
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Okay. Thank you, Clare. Of course, the example you quote was 10 years ago, so it's a pity it's taken so long to get back to where we are now, but I think the fundamental issue then was that lack of public engagement with stakeholders, and it all came as a bit…
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Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Okay, who wants to come in on this one? Clare.
