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Natural Environment – Adapting To Climate Change

Defra publications — Tue, 24 May 2011 05:20:20 +0000

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

Defra publications — Tue, 24 May 2011 03:35:01 +0000

This document sets out principles to guide adaptation to climate change. It is aimed at people responsible for planning and delivering actions across all sectors identified in the England Biodiversity Strategy: agriculture, water and wetlands, woodland and forestry, towns, cities and development, coasts and seas.

Adapting to Climate Change: Analysing the Role of Government

Defra publications — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:52:10 +0000

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. It also identifies the priority areas for future research on the economics of adaptation.

Climate Change: Taking Action

Defra publications — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:16:17 +0000

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

Defra publications — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:24:46 +0000

This document, Defra’s Climate Change Plan, sets out the actions Defra is taking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across its policy areas.

In responding to the challenge of a changing climate, Defra has three clear priorities:

securing the basics for human well-being.
enhancing the resilience of ecosystems.
building adaptive capacity.