SEPA launches new climate change plan for Scotland
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has marked Climate Week 2014 with the launch of a new plan to guide the Agency’s work in helping to deliver a lower carbon, more resilient Scotland.
Flood Re scheme has not taken climate change into account, report says
The proposed new scheme for flood insurance in the UK may not be sustainable because the impacts of climate change have not been taken into account, according to a new policy paper published today.
EC invests €281m in new environment projects
The European Commission has approved funding for 248 new projects under the LIFE+ programme, the European Union's environment fund.
Consultation launched for EU action on environment and climate change
Businesses and organisations are being asked for their views on European Union policies to find out whether being a part of the EU helps or hinders their work on the environment and climate change.
Europe must cooperate to adapt to climate change
European nations must work together in order to adapt to climate change, a new report has said, although there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach.
More floods and droughts over next 25 years, chief scientist warns
There is already enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to lead to more floods and droughts over the next 25 years, the government’s chief scientist has said.
CIWEM urges local authorities to prepare communities for climate change
Legislators at all levels of government across the globe should take a “resilience-based approach” to plan for climate change, the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) has urged.
Current atmospheric CO2 levels mean steady long-term sea level rise
Researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton have found that greenhouse gas concentrations similar to the present (almost 400 parts per million) were systematically associated with sea levels at least nine metres above current levels
New report flags up risks of world 4°C hotter by end of century
The world is"barreling down" a path to heat up by 4 degrees at the end of the century if the global community fails to act on climate change, triggering a cascade of cataclysmic changes that include extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks and a sea-level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people, according to a new scientific report commissioned by the World Bank.
Wet summers linked to ocean warming
This year's dismal UK summer could be part of a run of poor summers caused by a major warming of the North Atlantic Ocean that occurred back in the 1990s, according to new research.