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| Generic examples |
| Mobilising and building consistencies and capacity for developing and implementing adaptation measures. Includes promoting working in partnership to address climate risks and adaptation. |
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| Undertaking risk and adaptation assessments (and response implementation) through sectoral partnerships. |
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| Undertaking risk and adaptation assessments (and response implementation) through locality-based partnerships. |
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| Promoting the integration of climate risks and adaptation into existing and emerging policy and planning frameworks and strategies in key socio-economical and environmental areas. |
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| Undertaking risk and adaptation assessments involving linked but cross-disciplinary partnerships. |
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| Regional partnerships have been established in all nine regions of England, as well asin Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. These are stakeholder led with the achievements of milestones and outcomes dependent on the engagement, commitment, policies and practices of individual partnerships. Climate UK pulls together regional coordinators from each of the partnerships and supported by UKCIP provides an opportunity to discuss common issues, share experiences, and provide learning opportunities. |
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| Modelling Natural Resource Response to Climate Change (MONARCH) is a multi-partner project, with research led by the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford studying the impacts of climate change on a range of species and habitats. The first report from MONARCH showed how species distribution might look under a changed climate, using plants and animals from land, sea and freshwater environments as examples. The second phase of work looked at this process in more detail and how we might use this knowledge to continue nature conservation work within the context of a changing climate. The third and final phase will refine, speed up and improve the interpretative potential of MONARCH modelling. |
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| Building Knowledge for a Changing Climate (BKCC) was a portfolio of research projects looking at how climate change will affect different aspects of the built environment. It addresses some of the research needs of decision-makers dealing with buildings, transport and utilities infrastructure in responding to the impacts of a changing climate in the UK. It has been promoted jointly by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and UKCIP. |
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| At the second national councils’ climate conference held in Nottingham (5 December 2005) a revised declaration (Nottingham Declaration) was put forward, with a request for local authorities to show their commitment (voluntary) to tackling climate change. The Nottingham Declaration reflects current knowledge of climate change and is accompanied by an improved package of support measures outlining milestone activities that set out actions that councils should carry out to mitigate against and adapt to climate change. (Please note that the Nottingham Declaration website is offline until Spring 2012. We will reinstate any links as soon as we can). |
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| The Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) incorporates a range of marine stakeholder organisations concerned about the impacts of climate change. MCCIP has been set up as a response to gaps identified in the report Charting Progress: an Integrated Assessment of the State of UK Seas and its primary aims are to streamline the transfer of marine climate change knowledge to policy advisors and decision makers. |
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