Pierre Bahurel on the digital ocean: technology meets political action

Digital twin technology is set to massively expand our knowledge of the world's oceans

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00:00A digital twin of the ocean is a replica, a digital replica of the real ocean.

00:08We play with it to understand what could be the impact of our action.

00:11We put plastic, for instance, and we see where the plastic goes.

00:17The technology is ready.

00:18We are mastering all this digital technology.

00:21We have artificial intelligence. We have modeling.

00:23So all the science, all the investments made during these two decades

00:27such as satellites flying, researchers developing models,

00:31operational services such as EMONet or such as Copernicus Marine in Europe,

00:36they are good investments.

00:38But so then with all the digital technology, this is ready to do more and be faster.

00:43And the other one, because it's not enough, is that the demand is there.

00:47The ocean is higher and higher on the political agenda.

00:50We have the United Nations Conference on the Ocean.

00:53We have political leaders taking care of this.

00:55We have agreements that suddenly are rich on the preservation

01:00and the restoration of the ocean.

01:02We have in the European Commission a cross-cutting mission ocean

01:05to restore our ocean and waters.

01:07That is cross-cutting all the digits.

01:09So the ocean is really higher and higher.

01:11So the policymakers, they are asking us about the ocean,

01:14and we are ready to respond to them.

01:16So this is what is going on, technology and demand.

01:19We meet today.

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