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CCC publishes expenditure data online
The Committee on Climate Change today publishes details of all expenditure by month that exceeds £500 on its website. This is part of the Committee’s commitment to transparency and is in line with the Government’s transparency agenda. Minister for Cabinet Office Francis Maude, yesterday released detailed Government spending data, allowing the public to see for the first time ...
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Baroness Young leaves adaptation sub-committee - 21st January 2011
Baroness Barbara Young, one of the founding members of the Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) is leaving the Committee to take up a new post as Chief Executive of Diabetes UK, which will take up a significant portion of her time. Barbara Young joined the Committee in May 2009 and has made a significant contribution to the ASC’s first report into adaptation in the UK and ongoing work. Chair of ...
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CCC shortlisted for a Climate Week Award - 4 March 2011
The CCC has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Climate Week Awards under the category of "Best initiative by a Government or Statutory Body". The Committee entered its work on the 4th carbon budget report for consideration by the panel which included Lord Nicholas Stern and author Ian McEwan. The winners will be announced at a ceremony presided over by Secretary of State, Chris Huhne on 21st ...
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Scotland advised to cut emissions by 3.5% each year from 2020 to 2050
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) today advised the Scottish Government to cut emissions of greenhouse gases by at least 3.5% each year from 2020 to 2050, as a ‘fair and safe’ contribution to tackling climate change. The Committee was asked by the Scottish Government to recommend a cumulative emissions budget for Scotland for the period 2010 to 2050, to ensure that Scotland makes ...
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Climate Change at The Movies
Research published in the International Journal of Sustainable Development suggests that purportedly entertaining films that feature global warming and climate change can affect public understanding. But films are often bound up in problematic and limiting identity politics, which commonly reiterate racial, gender and sexual stereotypes positioning as they do white men as being the decision ...
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Appointment of Australian climate change special envoy and ambassador
The Rudd Government has strengthened its international engagement on climate change by appointing a Special Envoy on Climate Change and an Ambassador for Climate Change, Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, said today. “It is my great pleasure to announce that Mr Howard Bamsey is being appointed Australia’s Special Envoy on Climate Change and Ms Jan Adams is being appointed ...
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Committee’s sustainability strategy published in annual report & accounts 2009-2010 - 15 July 2010
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) today published its Annual Report & Accounts for 2009-10. These were formally laid before Parliament this morning, and were given an unqualified opinion by the National Audit Office. Included in the report is a new sustainability strategy for the organisation, and results from monitoring of emissions over the past year. Chief Executive of the Committee ...
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Government advised to re-design ‘complex’ CRC scheme for the second phase
The Committee on Climate Change has recommended that Government re-designs the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) energy efficiency scheme prior to the start of the second phase (2013-2017), in order to reduce its complexity. The current intention is that a cap is set from 2013 with a fixed number of allowances made available to organisations through an auctioning system. However, the ...
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As climate changes, will we change with it?
In this podcast, Sir Mark Walport, chief scientific advisor to the UK government, and Nazia Mintz-Habib, from the Centre of Development Studies, Cambridge University, talk about climate change in relation to the challenges and possible solutions for the United Kingdom and the global South. Click here to listen to the podcast. ...
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UK should commit to a 60% cut in emissions by 2030 as a contribution to global efforts to combat climate change
The Committee on Climate Change today recommended a carbon budget for 2023-27 and a target for emissions reductions in 2030 – halfway between now and 2050. The recommended target for 2030, to cut emissions by 60% relative to 1990 levels (46% relative to current levels), would then require a 62% emissions reduction from 2030 to meet the 2050 target in the Climate Change Act. The Committee ...
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Media reports on the draft IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
GENEVA, Feb 5 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) notes that news articles have appeared citing a draft of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). The IPCC recently circulated the Second Order Draft of the report, including a first draft of the Summary for Policymakers, for Expert and ...
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Be prepared: the UK should act now to adapt to climate change
The independent body that advises government on climate adaptation (the Adaptation Sub-Committee) today published the first national assessment of how well prepared the UK is for climate change. The report concludes that, with the impacts of climate change already being felt in the UK, people must start preparing now. Climate change is already having an impact in the UK. Since the 1970s, average ...
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IPCC Bureau Members among 2019’s World’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy
The IPCC Chair, Hoesung Lee and one of the Working Group II Co-Chairs, Debra Roberts, have been named among the 100 most influential people in climate policy for 2019 by Apolitical – a peer to peer learning platform for governments. The inaugural annual list seeks to celebrate politicians, civil servants, academics and activists from all over the world. “Apolitical has recognized ...
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Interested in Groundwater and Climate Change?
We are happy to announce the launching of the new website of the IAH Commission on Groundwater and Climate Change (CGCC) at https://gwclimate.iah.org/. Here you will be able to find updated information on the commission chairs, members, publications and activities. We would also like to invite you to join the CGCC as a member and/or share with us relevant activities in the field of groundwater ...
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IPCC elects Hoesung Lee of Republic of Korea as Chair
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) elected Hoesung Lee of the Republic of Korea as its new Chair on Tuesday. Hoesung Lee was elected by 78 votes to 56 in a run-off with Jean-Pascal van Ypersele. A total of six candidates had been nominated for the position. “I am honoured and grateful that the Panel has elected me as the IPCC’s new Chair,” said Hoesung Lee. ...
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Receives Results of Independent Review of its Processes and Procedures
- Recommendations to be taken to IPCC plenary in October - IPCC strengthened by IAC review and others carried out this year New York, Aug. 30, 2010 - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change welcomed the findings today of an independent review of its processes and procedures by the InterAcademy Council, the respected umbrella group for various national academies of science from countries ...
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Senator Wong in Argentina for climate change talks
Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, will attend a Ministerial Dialogue on Climate Change in Argentina from 15-18 September. The meeting, known as the 'Southern Lights' dialogue, is the fourth in a series of annual dialogues that aims to accelerate progress in the United Nation negotiations towards a new international agreement on tackling climate change. 'These meetings ...
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IPCC presents its work in Sudan
Khartoum, Aug 11 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body for assessing the science related to climate change, will present its findings at an outreach event in Sudan on 12 and 13 August 2018. It will also present its work programme for the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) cycle at the event, which is organized by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources ...
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The UK should invest more in low-carbon innovation, in order to achieve the 2050 climate change target
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) today advised that the UK should protect funding for a suite of low-carbon technologies, which if developed here, will help to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050, whilst also providing the basis for green economic growth in the longer term. Without government support, a range of essential low-carbon technologies are likely to get stuck in a so-called ...
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Bali climate change conference gets underway
The United Nations Climate Change Conference - Bali, 2007 got underway Monday, poised for a breakthrough in international climate change negotiations. The two-week conference, the thirteenth Conference of the 192 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the third meeting of the 176 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, is expected to result in negotiations on a ...
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