Reporting marine climate change impacts: Lessons from the science-policy interface

Frost, Matthew, Baxter, John, Buckley, Paul, Dye, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4182-8475 and Stoker, Bethany (2017) Reporting marine climate change impacts: Lessons from the science-policy interface. Environmental Science & Policy, 78. pp. 114-120. ISSN 1462-9011

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Abstract

Climate change science can trace its origins back to the early 19th Century although interest really took off in the 1980s, when public interest and research activity proliferated as the potential negative effects of global warming became clear. The impacts of climate change on the marine environment was receiving little attention at this time, but in recent years has started to “catch up” both in terms of research activity and public and policy interest. In the UK, the Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) has played a key role in transferring the emerging evidence base on marine climate change impacts to decision makers through the development of climate change report cards. Since publishing its first card back in 2006, the MCCIP cards have become established as the principal source of marine climate change impacts evidence for policy makers in the UK, and similar approaches have been adopted elsewhere. Here we broadly describe how the climate change evidence base has evolved over time, with a focus on the marine evidence base, and the approach adopted in the UK by MCCIP to rapidly transfer this evidence to end users. The SIIRMS model developed by MCCIP to ensure integrity and independence in the scientific translation process is explored, along with wider lessons learnt along the way (e.g. about communicating uncertainty) and the impact MCCIP has had on informing decision making.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	marine,climate change,biodiversity,science-policy,policy,communication,sdg 13 - climate action,sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	02 Nov 2017 06:07
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 03:17
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/65329
DOI:	10.1016/j.envsci.2017.10.003

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