The UK’s Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) is a co-leader of a new global partnership to elevate Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as a key tool in addressing the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change.

Ahead of the UN climate change (COP 26) and biodiversity (COP 15) conferences scheduled later this year, Chile, Costa Rica, France, United Kingdom and the United States launched the International Partnership on Marine Protected Areas, Biodiversity and Climate Change.  The partnership is an alliance of government agencies and organisations from across the world, working together to progress the evidence base around the role of MPAs and biodiversity in tackling climate change, and to advance the role of MPAs as a nature-based solution in the fight against biodiversity loss and climate change.

With scientific support from representatives of the IUCN and the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland, the partnership will work with global leaders to ensure they have the information and tools they need to understand the contribution of MPAs, and the biodiversity they protect, as a solution in helping mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change on the global ocean. Read more here.