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Preparing for and coping with the accelerating impacts of climate change requires adaptation in a wide range of policy areas. Yet, despite increasing calls for action, policy change to allow this is often slow. A range of counteracting forces and barriers can make it difficult to embed adaptation objectives into important policies and move them away from ‘business-as-usual’. Read more…

 
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Problem Domains

 

BIODIVERSITY

Flock of Atlantic puffins on the Treshnish Isles

Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part. Read more…

COASTAL ADAPTATION

Coastal Adaptation

Projected sea-level rise and climate change mean low-lying coastal areas will become increasingly vulnerable to coastal flooding, storm surge and erosion. Read more…

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Mental Health

While the health effects of climate change are being increasingly recognised and the Right to Health is embedded within the Paris Agreement, mental health impacts have received little attention to date. Read more…

 

Forestry

Biodiversity

Although the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change expresses medium confidence that forest productivity will tend to increase in Northern Europe, Read more…

Heat STRESS

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Adverse impacts on health caused by climate change have been a low or non-existent priority among many policymakers until recently, but this is beginning to change Read more…

WATER SCARCITY

Water Scarcity

Water scarcity refers to a situation in which water resources are not sufficient to satisfy long-term average requirements. Read more…