Building on the MCCIP climate change assessment across the UKOTs, MCCIP has explored the potential use of climate-smart marine spatial planning with the UKOTs. Initial awareness raising activities were followed by a consultation exercise, collaborative workshops, and case study focus group sessions with Anguilla and Turks and Caicos.
The package of outputs include an introduction to CSMSP for the UKOTs, consultation findings, and the UKOTs CSMSP roadmap illustrated with the case study examples.
Awareness raising activities were followed by a UKOT wide survey and workshops to explore capability. This CSMSP overview for the UKOTs provides a useful resource, along with a summary of the capability survey and workshops.
Drawing on the capability survey and workshop, a Roadmap for action toward CSMSP in the UKOTs has been developed. It is intended to support territories considering implementing principles of climate-smart design into their MSP or other marine management approaches.
The potential to apply CSMSP principles to the UKOTs has been explored through case studies for TCI and Anguilla.