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Adaptation
Information relating to actions taken to adapt to the consequences of climate change, including tree planting and efficient use of water.
Dashboards
Dashboards about the different indicators of climate change
Climate and weather
Information about the UK’s climate and weather, including temperature, rainfall and growing season.
Emissions
Information about greenhouse gas emissions including carbon dioxide (CO2) and other atmospheric emissions.
Drivers
Information relating to the human causes of climate change, such as fossil fuel use.
Impacts
Information about the impacts of climate change on human and natural systems.
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Mitigation
Information about efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including renewable and low-carbon energy consumption.
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Measuring UK greenhouse gas emissions
The UK is required to report its estimated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on a range of different bases (territorial, residence and footprint) to fulfil a wide range of international agreements as well as for domestic policy making purposes. The three key official measures of UK GHG emissions, territorial, residence and footprint, are explored and defined below.
Emissions embedded in trade and impacts on climate change
Providing services — including financial, legal and communications services — tends to emit fewer greenhouse gas emissions than manufacturing goods such as petroleum products, iron, steel or concrete.
The UK’s climate is changing. What is driving this? How is the UK responding?
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body providing science-led comprehensive assessments of climate change science, found that climate change is already happening, with global surface temperatures between 2001 and 2020 around 1°C higher than during 1850 to 1900, and that this is having effects across the world and in the UK including making extreme weather events more likely.
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