Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are crucial for conserving marine ecosystems, safeguarding biodiversity, and supporting local fisheries and marine economies. However, climate change presents significant challenges to their effectiveness. The new guidance, “Guidance for Building Climate Change Scenarios for Protection Strategies,” offers a framework for MPA managers and modelers to assess the vulnerability of marine species and ecosystems to climate stressors. This assessment is essential for climate-smart management, as the responses of marine organisms to climate-induced changes vary widely and are complex. The guidance is user-friendly, comprehensive, and versatile, designed to prioritize management concerns and provide criteria for decision-making. This framework is part of Deliverable D3.3 of the Horizon Europe project MSP4BIO, aiming to enhance the resilience of MPAs in the face of climate change.
