Archive for 'adaptation'
Natural Environment – Adapting To Climate Change
This discussion-document sets out our approach to sustaining the benefits we receive from the natural environment in the face of a changing climate and highlights the crucial importance of a healthy natural environment in enabling society to adapt.
England Biodiversity Strategy – Climate Change Adaptation Principles
This document sets out principles to guide adaptation to climate change.
Adapting to Climate Change: Analysing the Role of Government
This paper sets out how a number of barriers to adaptation (market failures, behavioural barriers, adaptive capacity, natural capacity) may affect adaptation decisions, and provides a framework for considering the Government’s role and identifies implications for policy design.
Climate Change: Taking Action
Published in March 2010, this document gives an overview of how government departments are delivering the Low Carbon Transition Plan and embedding consideration of the need to adapt to a changing climate in their planning and decision making.
Defra’s Climate Change Plan 2010
This document, Defra’s Climate Change Plan, sets out the actions Defra is taking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across its policy areas.