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Work in the UK
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland regional partnership
Future climate information
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Climate change impacts in Northern Ireland
A climate change scoping study, Implications of climate change for Northern Ireland: informing strategy development, showed that the following areas could be affected.
- Minerals and other natural resources
- Water resources
- Coastal and flood defence
- Other natural processes
- Biodiversity
- Agriculture, horticulture and forestry
- Fisheries
- Landscape and cultural heritage
- Construction, infrastructure and transportation
- Buildings
- Energy
- Sport and recreation
- Tourism
- Insurance
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Fisheries are vulnerable to predicted climate change because seasonal reproductive cycles of commercial species are temperature dependent and sensitive to small changes in temperature over relatively short time scales
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Air services and seaports, crucial travel links for Northern Ireland may become less reliable due to increased disruption by severe weather
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Improved energy efficiency and greater development of renewables, as these are relatively more cost-effective given the region's existing high fuel prices
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Click here to download a pdf of the technical report.
- Click here for the more recent SNIFFER report Preparing for a changing climate in Northern Ireland.
- Click to order the reports on CD.
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