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ADAS for CCC – UK land use projections and implications for mitigation and adaptation

ADAS for the CCC

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.

Our natural land: part of the solution to tackling climate change

The view from Dover Hill Nr. Chipping Campden on the route of the Cotswolds way footpath

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.

Second UK Climate Change Risk Assessment gathers pace

Resident survey damage on June 30, 2007 in Toll Bar near Doncaster, England.

A lot of attention is paid to the global impacts of climate change; melting Arctic ice, coastal flooding and coral bleaching to name a few. But what are the risks to the UK from rising global temperatures? The CCC’s Head of Adaptation, Daniel Johns, looks ahead to the second Climate Change Risk Assessment.

Government response to 2015 progress report

Cover of the government's response to the CCC's annual progress report 2015

This set of three documents comprises the Government’s response to the CCC and ASC’s joint 2015 progress report, ‘Reducing emissions and preparing for climate change.’

Urgent action needed now to avoid increasing costs and impacts of climate change in the UK

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Early action in the new Parliament is needed to keep the UK’s emissions reductions on track and to adapt to climate change, the Committee on Climate Change says today.

Reducing emissions and preparing for climate change: 2015 Progress Report to Parliament

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This is the Committee’s first report to the new Parliament and the first report under sections 36 and 59 of the Climate Change Act, covering both progress towards meeting carbon budgets and progress on adaptation to climate change. It includes the CCC’s first ever statutory assessment of the National Adaptation Programme.             The report comes in 3 volumes: Reducing emissions and preparing for climate change: 2015 Progress …