Climate Change Adaptation

The threat of climate change to the UK’s biodiversity is recognised, but impacts are understood only partially. While some mitigation measures may be possible, there is a need to explore options to enable adaptation to change.

UK BRAG Climate Change Adaptation Sub-Group

UK BRAG has a sub-group to co-ordinate work concerning climate change adaptation. Membership as follows:

Richard Ferris	(UKBRAG Secretariat), JNCC
Andrew Stott	Defra
Helen Pontier	Defra
Michael Usher	University of Stirling
John Hopkins	Natural England
Clive Walmsley	Countryside Council for Wales
Joanna Drewitt	Scottish Executive
Matt Frost	The Marine Biological Association
Steve Hawkins	The Marine Biological Association
Allan Watt	Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Banchory
Ruth Mitchell	Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Banchory

Key Climate Change Adaptation Publications

A UK BRAG research strategy: climate change and adaptation (2006)

UK BRAG secretariat and climate change adaptation sub-group

The need to consider climate change and adaptation has been recognised. This theme cuts across all the other areas of UK BRAG work and, given the widely acknowledged scale of the threat that climate change presents for Europe's biodiversity, is of critical importance.

Climate change and biodiversity conservation: knowledge needed to support development of integrated adaptation strategies (2005)

EPBRS

Recommendations from the meeting of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy on climate change and biodiversity conservation: knowledge needed to support development of integrated adaptation strategies

Climate change and British woodland (2005)

Forestry Commission

Information note on how environmental changes may affect the growth of trees

Climate change: The UK programme 2006 (2006)

HM Government

The Climate Change Programme sets out the UK governments policies and priorities for action in the UK and internationally.

How is Defra tackling climate change?

Defra

This note gives a snapshot of the science Defra is funding to tackle climate change

Interlinkages between ecological diversity and climate change (2003)

Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Advice on the integration of biodiversity considerations into the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol

Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (2005)

Royal Society

The impacts of ocean acidification are additional to, and may exacerbate, the effects of climate change. This paper looks at these effects.

Scottish climate change programme (2000)

Scottish Executive

This publication supports the UK Climate Change Programme

Wales: Changing climate, challenging choices (2000)

National Assembly for Wales

The impacts of climate change in Wales from now to 2080

Key External Links

Hadley Centre for Climate Change

Met Office Hadley Centre is leading international research into what could happen under climate change, and the impacts on current and future generations.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership

The Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership incorporates a range of marine stakeholder organisations concerned about the impacts of climate change. Its primary aims are to streamline the transfer of marine climate change knowledge to policy advisors and decision makers.

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

The Tyndall Centre brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists, who together are working to develop sustainable responses to climate change through trans-disciplinary research and dialogue on both a national and international level - not just within the research community, but also with business leaders, policy advisors, the media and the public in general.

UK Climate Impacts Programme

The UK Climate Impacts Programme provides scenarios that show how our climate might change and co-ordinates research on dealing with our future climate.

UK Phenology Network

The Woodland Trust and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology developed the UK Phenology Network to explore the impact of climate change at a local level across the UK. The aim is to become the definitive national database of the impact of climate change on the timing of natural events.

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Over a decade ago, most countries joined an international treaty -- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) - to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable.