An increasing emphasis of the National Capability remit is to provide science in support of the UK’s international development agenda through official development assistance (ODA) funding.
Scientists from the NOC and PML are collaborating on the ACCORD project to increase our understanding of the mechanisms and processes that determine the potential sensitivity or resilience of marine ecosystems to both globally and locally induced environmental change. This understanding will then be used to determine the environmental and societal consequences of ecosystem change to inform risk assessment, adaptive spatial management and mitigation strategies.