The Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP), working closely with the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) has published the first comprehensive assessment of climate change impacts on coasts and seas across the UKOTs. It highlights the UKOTs climate challenges and showcases where they are working with nature to build resilience to climate change.

Focusing on six key regions (Polar, Pacific, South Atlantic, Mediterranean, Caribbean and North Atlantic, and Indian Ocean), more than 60 leading experts from all 14 UKOTs prioritised and highlighted their most important ecological and societal climate challenges.

Although each Territory is unique, and in many cases geographically isolated, they share some common climate change issues:

• Changes in extreme weather and sea-level rise
• Risk to important fish species and the habitats that support them
• Consequences of severe storms and flooding
• Effects of climate related events on corals and ref communities
• Major shifts in marine ecosystems
• A lack of local data

To view the report cards Click here