Annual Report Card and Briefing Notes
The annual report card (ARC) will provide one of the most important outputs of the MCCIP programme, synthesising the previous years work in a highly accessible and actionable format. Our express aim is to provide an annual account of developments in UK marine science in the form of a:
"Short, comprehensive, quality assured, high level assimilation of knowledge set out in a visually impacting way that would enable the results to be quickly and easily understood and used by policy advisors, decision makers, Ministers, Parliament and the devolved administrations"
What are the key questions to be addressed by the annual report?
Although it is envisaged that the structure of the annual report will evolve from year to year, as our scientific understanding and key issues invariably evolve over time, the heart of our initiative will principally be concerned with the following issues:
- What is the current state of scientific understanding of marine climate change in our oceans and seas?
- What changes have been observed and what could happen in the future?
- How much of this is hard fact and how much is interpretation?
Supporting Evidence
The high level statements presented in the ARC are supported by more detailed reports from each contributing scientists. These reports will be fully accessible through the online version of the report card and will set out the supporting case for the messages presented in ARC. These notes are fully referenced and key sources of information highlighted so that the user can look at each subject in greater depth. The MCCIP report card working group commissions the contributing scientists, and identifies appropriate specialists to peer-review the quality of the science.
For 2008/09 please see Ecosystems linkages report