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On 15 October 2018 the governments of the UK, Scotland and Wales asked the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) to provide advice on the UK and Devolved Administrations’ long-term climate change targets. The Committee launched a call for evidence to help inform that advice. These are the responses we received.

The CCC has launched a call for evidence to identify relevant published information about the risks and opportunities facing the UK from climate change.

Keith Bell, Professor of electronic and electrical engineering at the University of Strathclyde, has been appointed to the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) by the UK Government and Devolved Administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Updating an assessment of the costs and benefits of low-regret climate change adaptation options in the residential buildings sector. This report, by Wood, accompanies the CCC's UK housing: Fit for the future? report, published in February 2019.

On 2 May, the CCC will publish new advice on the UK's long-term climate change targets. Ahead of that report to Government, CCC Chief Executive, Chris Stark, addressed the Business Green Leaders Briefing to share his observations about the 'climate choices' that lie ahead.

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) welcomes news that the UK Government intends to implement a series of new measures to help reduce the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change.

Government must act now to improve the quality of UK homes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to safeguard our comfort, health and wellbeing as the climate changes, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says today.

This report, by the Committee on Climate Change and its Adaptation Committee, assesses whether the UK's housing stock is adequately prepared for the challenges of climate change.

This is a letter from CCC Chairman, Lord Deben, to the Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth, Claire Perry MP, about the carry-forward of 'surplus emissions' from the UK's second carbon budget (2013-2017). 

This is a letter from the Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, Lord Deben, to the UK Government and the Devolved Administrations about the CCC's forthcoming advice on the UK's long-term climate change targets.