Association of British Insurers' "Climate Change" webpage - including the ABI's report "Financial Risks of Climate Change" (June 2005)
BBC Weather Centre's 'Climate Change' site
The BUSINESS page of this website (www.oursouthwest.com) gives comprehensive information and links to support schemes to help your organisation reduce its CO2 emissions and improve its environmental performance in other ways too
Climate Change Myths - The Met Office's web page on dispelling climate change myths. See also 'Climate change controversies: a simple guide' by the Royal Society at: royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=6229 and the BBC News webpage dealing with climate scepticism on news.bbc.co.uk
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change - on Defra's main website. This site includes national policy news and developments on climate change
Farming Futures - comprehensive website exploring the opportunities and challenges of climate change for the agricultural sector, with emphasis on both mitigation and adaptation
Farming - Wildlife Friendly Farming Guide - unique www.oursouthwest.com + SWCCIP guide with month by month advice to help farmers protect biodiversity whilst adapting to climate change
Flooding advice for homes and communities from Directgov
Forestry Research - Climate Change
- the Forestry Commission's research agency webpages on climate change. See
also The potential effects of climate change for trees and woodland in the SW (pdf - 189K) - report prepared May '04 for the South West Conservancy of the Forestry Commission
G8 Gleneagles 2005 Climate Change
University of Gloucestershire's School of Environment
Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research - The Impacts of Climate Change on UK Agriculture
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change
Low Carbon South West - strategies and actions towards a low carbon future for the South West (on www.oursouthwest.com)
Making space for water - Innovation Fund - Slapton Coastal Zone (managed by South Hams District Council, on behalf of the Slapton Line Partnership) was one of six DEFRA funded pilots announced in January 2007. It aims to produce a plan in liaison with local communities for adapting in response to coastal erosion which will affect transport links, environmental and heritage assets and the local economy.
Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP)
The Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
NERC Centres for Atmospheric Science - the Natural Environment Research Council's Collaborative Centre for research in atmospheric science including climate change, climate variability and hazardous weather
Nottingham Declaration - voluntary pledge by local councils to address the issues of climate change (on the Energy Saving Trust's website)
Office of Climate Change - supporting Government Ministers to develop future UK strategy and policy on domestic and international climate change
RAPID - Natural Environment Research Council's "Rapid Climate Change" research programme investigating what causes rapid switches in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the Atlantic Ocean's thermohaline circulation
Royal Horticultural Society - Climate change - gardening in a changing climate
RIBA - Climate change - the Royal Institute of British Architects' 'Combating Climate Change' programme
South West Observatory/Environment - Climate Change in the South West page
Stern Review (October 2006) into the economics of climate change
Stop Climate Chaos Campaign - climate change coalition demanding stronger government action on climate change while mobilizing public support for government initiatives that reduce the huge levels of CO2 being emitted
Summer 2007 Floods - EA dedicated web page with facts and information on the floods
Tomorrow's Climate, Today's Challenge - HM Government led climate change communications initiative
Transport Network, the impacts of climate change - this page (on DfT's website) brings together reports and information concerning the likely impacts of climate change on the transport network so that transport practitioners are better equipped to assess the risks of climate change and adapt their activities accordingly
UKCIP - United Kingdom Climate Impacts Programme. Comprehensive advice, guidance and research from UKCIP for different activity areas such as agriculture, business, health, local communities, advice for gardeners etc
Videos on climate change - on-line source hosted by www.environmenttelevision.co.uk (you may need Windows Media player or similar software on your PC to view these)
WaveNet - Long-term wave monitoring around the English and Welsh coast. Real time wave data from a network of wave
buoys located in areas at risk from flooding to assess flood risk and on a longer timescale to help design improved flood defence schemes and to provide data for climate change studies
ZeroCarbonCity programme from the British Council was launched on 1 March '05 as part of a two-year global campaign around climate change. ZeroCarbonCity shifts the emphasis away from climate change impacts and inter-governmental
negotiations, towards mitigation, adaptation, and practical measures that people can adopt.
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