• Involve stakeholders to develop a common understanding of the drivers and impacts of climate change
• Analyse how these are addressed by current policy and practice
• Use this baseline to reveal knowledge gaps, uncertainties and existing adaptive capacity
• Use these issues to trigger actions. 

In the IMCORE experience, the main stimulus for adaptation was the economic impact of climate change drivers on local industry. Examples of drivers of our case studies included:

• the reduction of shipping fishing days,
• the decrease of species which are of commercial interest,
• the threat to Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas from pollution and flooding or
• the loss of transport infrastructures.

TIP 1: Keep it clear

TIP 2: Engage the right audience in the right way

TIP 3: Assess baseline information

TIP 4: Identify coastal climate change issues

TIP 5: Determine Time periods for issues

• Learn how to develop your adaptation strategy by using our illustrated step by step online course.
• Download the IMCORE guidelines for Issue Identification.
• Listen to our partners insights on how to address gaps in scientific evidence, how visualisation tools can support your workshops and how to communicate the right messages on the videos below.
• It is also recommended you read the review on the PESTLE analysis technique which can be useful to integrate issues across all sectors. Other techniques our partners have used are perception surveys, expert interviews and the Delphi technique.

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Step by step guidance

Graham Lymbery explains how to cope when you don't have all the scientific evidence

David Green comments on how visualization tools can make the difference in illustrating the issues to stakeholders