Why doesn UKCIP concentrate on preventing climate change?
There is a lot of work going on to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and so to limit the impact of climate change. Some climate change is inevitable because of the emissions human activity has already released, so UKCIP was set up by the UK Government to co-ordinate research into the impacts of climate change and to help organisations assess how they will be affected so they can plan to adapt. This in itself is a major task. UKCIP’s work on climate change adaptation is complementary to the work going on to limit climate change.
