Climate change: Publications
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- Publications
- UK emissions trading publications
- Climate change and agriculture
- Energy White Paper
- Archive publications
Publications
- The UK’s Fourth National Communication (PDF) (1.4 MB) to the UNFCCC on its progress towards its Kyoto Protocol target was published on 1 June 2006.
- The 2006 UK Climate Change Programme was published on 28 March, detailing the policies and measures which the UK is using to cut its emissions of greenhouse gases, and how the UK plans to adapt to the impacts of climate change. (28 March 2006)
- Global warming: looking beyond Kyoto (PDF) (227 KB)
October 2005 paper submitted by Defra's Chief Scientific Advisor, Professor Howard Dalton, given in association with his lecture at the US Yale Centre for Globalization - India-UK collaboration on impacts of climate change in India - published 8 September 2005
- Government Response to the Environmental Audit Committee: The International Challenge of Climate Change: UK leadership in the G8 and EU - published 19 August 2005
- Results of the joint Defra/DFID Study on Climate Change in Africa - published 16 December 2004
- Review of the Defra-funded UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) - November 2004
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Scientific and Technical Aspects
of Climate Change, including impacts and adaptation and associated costs (PDF) (4.0
MB) - Please note, the advice on our Help page should
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documents.
This paper, published by Defra on 14 September 2004, reviews the evidence for climate change, its human causes, projections for future climate change, its likely impacts and related adaptation issues, and the scientific issues surrounding stabilisation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. -
Investigating the impacts of climate change
on Chinese agriculture - report published 13 September 2004
This report on Phase I of a China-UK project investigates the impacts of climate change on Chinese agriculture. - The International Seminar on the Social Costs of Carbon
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Scenarios of climate change for islands within the British-Irish Council
(BIC) region (report available from www.british-irishcouncil.org/climatechange)
The report builds on the climate change scenarios for the UK published last year and provides new detail on how climate is likely to change for the islands of the BIC region - Channel islands, Isle of Man, Western Isles, Orkney Islands, and Shetland Islands. - "Climate change and local communities - how prepared are you?" - available on the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) website. The UKCIP have been working with the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA), the Local Government Association (LGA), Defra, and ODPM, to produce guidance to inform local authority Chief Executives and their service managers of the key implications of climate change for local authority business functions. The publication offers clear practical guidance on why it is in the interests of local authorities to take climate change into account, what issues require early pro-active action, and how they can go about doing this.
- Climate adaptation: risk, uncertainty and decision-making (UKCIP Technical Report published May 2003).
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Impacts of Climate Change: Implications
for Defra (11 February 2003)
- Assessment of Technological Options to Address Climate Change (December 2002) Imperial College Centre for Energy Policy and Technology, on Strategy Unit website
UK emissions trading publications
Climate change and agriculture
- A MAFF study on climate change and
agriculture in the UK, is available at:
www.defra.gov.uk/farm/environment/climate-change/
Energy White Paper
Two papers were published by Defra to accompany the 2003 Energy White Paper.
"The scientific case for setting a long-term emission reduction target" (460 KB) sets out the scientific rationale for setting a long-term emission reduction target. It focuses on the reduction required by 2050, and it describes the methodology used to derive the target of 60% used in the 2003 Energy White Paper.
"Ancillary effects of greenhouse gas mitigation policies" (70 KB) seeks to identify the ancillary benefits that may arise from greenhouse gas mitigation, and to summarise estimates of the magnitudes of such benefits.
Archive publications
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