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Title: How well prepared is the UK for climate change? NEW
Publisher: Committee on Climate Change
Date: September 2010
Resource: Report
Description: First national assessment of progress on preparing for climate change,
based primarily on analysis of central government activity. Identifies five priority areas for early action: taking a strategic approach to land use planning, providing national infrastructure, designing and renovating buildings, managing natural resources sustainability and effective emergency planning.

Title: Climate change survey of local authorities
Publisher: Local Government Association
Date: August 2010
Resource: Survey results
Description: Results of a survey aimed to understand how local authorities are tackling climate change, their capacity to respond to the range of initiatives and policies being released on climate change, and how the LGA and LGID might offer support.

Title: Regional Indicators on sustainable development
Publisher: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Date: February 2010
Resource: Statistics
Description: Regional versions of the UK Government’s indicators of sustainable development provide a perspective of sustainable development in each region. The indicators highlight issues within the priority areas of sustainable consumption and production, natural resources, and sustainable communities. Other indicators provide useful contextual information.

Title: UK Climate Projections 2009
Publisher: UK Climate Projections 2009
Date: 2009
Resource: Projection
Description: UK Climate Projections (UKCP09) gives climate information for the UK up to the end of this century. It gives projections of future climate changes based on simulations from climate models. It shows high, medium and low greenhouse gas scenarios.

Title: Greenhouse gas regional inventory project (GRIP)
Publisher: University of Manchester
Date: Ongoing
Resource: Scenario tool
Description: Sebastian Carney, from the University of Manchester, has found policy makers are underestimating the changes needed to mitigate CO2 emissions because they work in 'silos'. To address this he uses specially developed software, which blends in real time, different quantities and types of energy consumed with area-specific data to illustrate the effects of different policy scenarios on CO2 emissions.

Title: Protecting and improving Scotland’s environment
Publisher: Audit Scotland
Date: January 2010
Resource: Report
Description: Provides an overview of the Scottish public sector’s performance against targets for improving air quality, protecting and improving the water environment, protecting and improving biodiversity and improving waste management.

Title: Sustainable cities index
Publisher: Forum for the Future
Date: November 2009
Resource: Listing
Description: The annual sustainable cities tracks progress on sustainability in Britain’s 20 largest cities, highlighting their environmental performance, quality of life and their readiness for the challenges of the future. It is intended to encourage healthy competition, stimulating discussion and giving citizens the tools to hold their leaders to account. The 2009 winner was Newcastle

Title: Sustainable development: third annual assessment of progress by the Scottish Government
Publisher: Sustainable Development Commission
Date: 2009
Resource: Report
Description: This assessment of the Scottish Government’s progress on delivering sustainable development finds that Scottish communities are still not geared towards low carbon living. The report finds communities and the economy need to be restructured if Scotland is serious about a low-carbon sustainable lifestyle.

Title: Fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change: summary for policy makers
Publisher: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Date: 2007
Resource: Report
Description: Sets out the key policy relevant findings of the assessment of current scientific understanding of the impacts of climate change on natural, managed and human systems, the capacity of these systems to adapt and their vulnerability. It builds upon past IPCC assessments and incorporates new knowledge gained since the third assessment.

Title:  Prelude (prospective environmental analysis of land use development in Europe)
Publisher: European Environment Agency
Date: March 2006
Resource: Forcast toolkit
Description: Explores what European landscapes may look like in 30 years. It tackles the uncertainties of the future by analysing a range of plausible developments. As a result, five contrasting futures are depicted in a set of coherent scenarios.

Title: Decarbonising the UK: energy for a climate conscious future
Publisher: Tyndall Centre for Climate change Research
Date: 2005
Resource: Research report
Description: Outlines decarbonising scenarios that integrate the energy system and include carbon dioxide emissions from air, sea and land transport. They integrate the perspectives of a range of specialists to provide an understanding of how the UK Government can achieve a 60 percent carbon dioxide reduction target by 2050.

Title: Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Europe
Publisher: European Environment Agency
Date: 2006
Resource: Report
Audience: General
Description: Shows Europe mountain regions, coastal zones, wetlands and the Mediterranean region are most vulnerable to climate change. Existing measures are focused on flood defence, so there is considerable scope for adaptation planning and implementation in other areas, such as public health, water resources and management of ecosystems.

Title:  London’s warming: the impacts of climate change on London
Publisher: London Climate Change Partnership
Date: October 2002
Resource: Study report
Description: First step in understanding what climate change could mean for London. It looked at a broad range of impacts across issues such as flooding, water resources, health, the built environment, transport and other infrastructure, business, tourism, biodiversity and lifestyle.

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Author:

sarah lewis

Publisher:

The Royal Town Planning Institute

Date:

20-Oct-10

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