ASPACE: Climate Smart Marine Spatial Planning Decision Support Tool

This webinar formed part of the final MSPACE webinar series, presenting key outputs from the Marine Spatial Planning Addressing Climate Effects (MSPACE) project. The session introduced ASPACE (Assisted Spatial Planning Addressing Climate Effects), a climate-smart decision-support tool designed to help users design, explore and compare spatial management scenarios that are climate-resilient, socially acceptable and economically viable. Developed through a co-creation process with marine planners, conservation practitioners, fisheries representatives and other stakeholders, ASPACE supports informed and transparent decision-making in marine spatial planning. While initially developed with a focus on UK waters, the tool provides access to modelling data from across Europe and allows users anywhere in the world to upload and work with their own datasets. The tool is thus ideal to support stakeholder engagement activities or any other decision-support context that requires information about marine space. This webinar was delivered as part of the Marine Spatial Planning Addressing Climate Effects (MSPACE) project, funded under the Sustainable Management of Marine Resources (SMMR) programme. This online workshop took place on the 2nd February 2026.