Climate Change

Climate change represents a challenge for rural people in West and Central Africa, hence adapting small-scale irrigation to climate change is a priority for their future.

Environmental risks have come to prominence in the global risks landscape in 2016. The World Economic Forum: The Global Risks Report 2016 has been published and has identified water as the number one global risk for business and society in the coming decade.

The Global Goals have only just been agreed, but climate change talks in Paris could be about to put them in jeopardy. Water Aid's Senior Policy Analyst for water security and climate change, Louise Whiting, explains why we need world leaders to act now – and why water needs to be at the top of their agenda.

2015 has been an incredible year for water.

With your support, September saw us achieve something we’d never have dreamt of just a few years ago: a Global Goal dedicated to clean water and sanitation.

NERC's world-leading climate science research is set to play a pivotal role in helping negotiators thrash out an international climate change agreement during the upcoming UN climate change conference in Paris (COP21).

The Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) of the Committee on Climate Change has been asked by the Government to lead the next UK Climate Change Risk Assessment. An ASC Evidence Report will be published in July 2016, before the final Government report is presented to Parliament in 2017. The ASC has commissioned four research projects to inform its 2016 assessment.

Under the Climate Change Act 2008, the UK Government is required to publish a Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) every five years. The first assessment was published in 2012 and the next is due in 2017 (CCRA2). This supporting research presents the results of one of the four projects commissioned by the Committee on Climate Change to inform CCRA2.

The Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) of the Committee on Climate Change has been asked by the Government to lead the next UK Climate Change Risk Assessment. An Evidence Report will be published in July 2016, before the final Government report is presented to Parliament in 2017. The ASC commissioned four research projects to inform the assessment.

The UK’s goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% in 2050 remains in line with the international commitment to 2°C, the Committee on Climate Change says today. The UK must also agree reductions to 2030 as part of its “fifth carbon budget”. A reduction in emissions beyond those currently agreed for the mid-2020s is consistent with the UK’s cost-effective path to 2050, and with scientific and international developments.

Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) is pleased to announce the publication of its Biodiversity Climate Change Impacts Report Card. The Report Card provides a comprehensive overview of what is happening now in the UK’s countryside, the extent to which climate change is contributing to those changes, and what we might expect to happen in the future.