Tagged: Adaptation
Infographic: Scotland’s progress in preparing for climate change
This infographic provides a snapshot of progress being made in Scotland to prepare for the impacts of climate change. It accompanies the Adaptation Sub-Committee’s 2016 report ‘Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme: An independent assessment for the Scottish Parliament.’
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Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme: An independent assessment
This statutory report is the Adaptation Sub-Committee’s first to the Scottish Parliament. It provides an interim evaluation of the progress being made to prepare for climate change, two years after the Scottish Government published its inaugural Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme (SCCAP) in 2014.
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Action underway to prepare for climate change in Scotland but extent of progress hard to assess
Steps are being taken to prepare for climate change, but a lack of evidence is making it difficult to judge whether Scotland’s vulnerability to climate impacts is increasing, remaining constant, or decreasing, the Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says today.
ADAS for CCC – UK land use projections and implications for mitigation and adaptation
This report reviews the evidence base on land use drivers, metrics and models to inform the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) on the implications of land use change for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
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Our natural land: part of the solution to tackling climate change
Natural land is one of our key resources. It provides a wide range of goods and services – food, timber, clean water, energy, wildlife habitats, carbon storage, flood management as well as green spaces vital for our physical and mental health and other recreation activities. While some of these benefits can be valued in monetary terms, others have no market value, which makes it all the more important to recognise their worth, writes the CCC’s Ewa Kmietowicz.
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The UK’s approach to tackling climate change
There has been, to adopt a phrase, a lot of news of late: the referendum on the EU, the impact on all of the political parties, a new Prime Minister and a new structure for Government and its ministerial team with countless deviations, contortions and digressions in between (and more, no doubt, to come). Yet, when it comes to climate change, three things remain unchanged, writes Committee on Climate Change Chairman, Lord Deben.
Synthesis report
The Adaptation Sub-Committee has summarised the results of the independent analysis presented in the CCRA Evidence Report, and drawn conclusions that are presented in the Synthesis Report. Following the systematic review of the available evidence by leading academics and other experts included in the Technical Chapters, the Adaptation Sub-Committee has identified six key areas of climate change risk that need to be managed as a priority. The six immediate priority …
CCC response to call for evidence from National Flood Resilience Review
In response to a call for evidence, the Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) of the Committee on Climate Change made two written submissions to the National Flood Resilience Review. The Submission to the NFRR call for evidence outlines the the various peer reviewed projects commissioned by the ASC relating to current and future vulnerability to flooding in England and the UK. The Submission to the NFRR on immediate measures provides the ASC’s analysis of the immediate action that can be taken …
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Submission to the EFRA Committee inquiry into the winter floods of 2015/16
Lord Krebs of the Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) has written to Neil Parish MP, Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee to provide written evidence to EFRA’s Winter floods 2015/16 inquiry. Lord Krebs writes: “We very much welcome this inquiry. The record rainfall totals in December were unprecedented in the instrumental record but severe flooding somewhere in England in any given year is almost to be expected. As a result of …
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Letter from Lord Krebs to Elizabeth Truss MP on water abstraction, and reply from Rory Stewart MP
Lord Krebs, Chair of the Adaptation Sub-Committee, has written to the Secretary of State, Elizabeth Truss MP, to offer the Committee’s support for the Government’s proposed water abstraction reforms set out in January 2016.
