09/10/2025
17:00 - 17:40
Learning Zone Pavilion: Publications Hub
, Onsite
Session with interpretation
Why attend
Are you interested in the effects of climate change on marine environments? This new IUCN guidance can assist by informing the planning, design, and implementation of new and expanded MPAs, OECMs, and areas conserved by Indigenous peoples at the community, national, and international levels.
Session Description
This session provides an overview and opportunity to discuss this newly release guidance on Establishing Marine Protected Areas in a Changing Climate. It illustrates why it is important to consider climate change in MPA planning, and how new areas can be established in ways that build climate resilience, adaptation, and mitigation. The audience for this guidance includes relevant government agencies and non-governmental organizations at the national, sub-national, and regional scales, as well as Indigenous peoples and communities. While the focus is on new and expanded MPAs and networks, much of this guidance is also relevant to the climate-adaptive management of existing MPAs. This guidance recognises the broader context of marine spatial planning and ecosystem approaches to management within which MPA networks often operate. It also recognises the wealth of resources already available on implementing climate-adaptive MPAs and provides a brief introduction to these tools and approaches.Organized by
World Commission on Protected Areas
Partners
World Commission on Protected Areas
Session agenda
Speaker
Shane ORCHARD
Establishing Marine Protected Areas in a Changing Climate
Fabrice STEPHENSON
Establishing Marine Protected Areas in a Changing Climate