Committee on Climate Change

The Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), was established under the Climate Change Act 2008.  The ASC provides expert advice and scrutiny through the CCC to ensure that the Government’s programme for adaptation enables the UK to prepare effectively for the impacts of climate change. 

The ASC advises on:

• the preparation of the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment;
• the implementation of Her Majesty's Government's Adaptation Programme (for England and
• requests from the national authorities (of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) for advice on adaptation.

The ASC’s work programme sets out the objectives, tasks and outputs of the committee in more detail.

ASC Members


Lord John Krebs Kt FRS

Professor Lord Krebs Kt FRS, is currently Principal of Jesus College Oxford.  Previously, he held posts at the University of British Columbia, the University of Wales, and Oxford, where he was lecturer in Zoology, 1976-88, and Royal Society Research Professor, 1988-2005.  From 1994-1999, he was Chief Executive of the Natural Environment Research Council and, from 2000-2005, Chairman of the Food Standards Agency. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is chairman of the House of Lords Science & Technology Select Committee.



Sir Graham Wynne, CBE

Graham Wynne joined the RSPB in 1987, having spent 15 years as a city planner, principally concerned with inner city regeneration.  He became Director of Conservation for the RSPB in 1989 and was appointed Chief Executive in 1998.  Graham is a member of the Natural Environment PSA Delivery Board; the Foresight Land Use Futures High Level Group; the Adaptation Sub-Committee to the Committee on Climate Change; and until recently, the Board of Stop Climate Chaos (a coalition of environmental development NGOs, faith groups and other civil society organisations).  He was a member of the Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food, the Delivery Group for the Government's Sustainable Farming and Food Strategy and of the Government’s Sustainable Development Commission.  He is also a Council member of BirdLife International, a global partnership of conservation organisations.   


 
Professor Jim Hall

Professor Jim Hall FREng is Director of the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University, where he is Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks. A chartered engineer by background, Professor Hall has pioneered the use of probabilistic methods in flood risk assessment and water resource systems. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Flood Risk Management and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. 



Professor Samuel Fankhauser

Professor Samuel Fankhauser is acting Co-Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics and a Director at Vivid Economics. He is a former Deputy Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. 



Professor Martin Parry, OBE 

Professor Parry is visiting professor at Imperial College and was Co-Chair of Working of Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2007 Assessment Report.  He was chairman of the UK Climate Change Impacts Review Group, and a coordinating lead author in the IPCC first, second and third assessments. He has worked at the Universities of Oxford, University College London, Birmingham and University of East Anglia.



Professor Anne Johnson

Professor Anne Johnson is a public health doctor. She is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Institute for Global Health at University College London.  She was a member of the UCL/Lancet Commission report on managing the health effects of climate change. She was previously Chair of the MRC Population Health Sciences Group. She became a Wellcome Trust governor in 2011.

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