Outcomes   This World Resources Institute sets out some very tangible outcomes from the UN Summit last week – on international cooperation, forests, cities, business, support for vulnerable countries, the green climate fund and transport To read more click here David Cameron’s comments on the UN Summit: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/un-climate-summit-2014-david-camerons-remarks The UN Summit on Climate Change is and has […]

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MCCIP website has recently been updated with new marine climate change news and events. Below is a brief summary of the new items that have been added. For more details on all of the items listed below, simply go to http://www.mccip.org.uk/ and go to the relevant links in the ‘news and events’ box on our […]

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Climate Change Committee:  ‘This is our sixth statutory report to Parliament on progress towards meeting carbon budgets. In it we consider the latest data on emissions and their drivers. This year the report also includes a full assessment of how the first carbon budget (2008-2012) was met, drawing out policy lessons and setting out what […]

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Met Office:  Extreme summer rainfall may become more frequent in the UK due to climate change, according to new research led by the Met Office in collaboration with Newcastle University. The new study, from the joint Met Office and NERC funded CONVEX project, uses a state-of-the-art climate model providing the first evidence that hourly summer […]

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Natural England and the RSPB, in partnership with the Environment Agency’s Climate Ready Support Service and the Forestry Commission have published a new resource for conservation practitioners, ‘Climate change adaptation manual: evidence to support nature conservation in a changing climate’. Natural England and the RSPB, in partnership with the Environment Agency’s Climate Ready Support Service […]

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