Environmental Protection

Climate change

• Climate change home

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• Latest
• About this site
• What is climate change?
• Action in the UK
• Action internationally
• Emissions trading
• Cost of carbon
• Publications
• Contacts

Climate change is the greatest environmental challenge facing the world today. Rising global temperatures will bring changes in weather patterns, rising sea levels and increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. The effects will be felt here in the UK and internationally there may be severe problems for people in regions that are particularly vulnerable to change.

The UK is acting now to adapt to climate change and to reduce the risk by reducing our contribution to the causes. This website explains what climate change means for the UK and what we are doing about it.

The site has been reorganised and updated alongside our new Climate Change Communications Initiative. More details...

Latest information and about this site
Summaries of recent developments and a quick introduction

What is climate change?
The greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases, global effects of climate change, effects of climate change in the UK

What we are doing in the UK
Information about the new Climate Change Communications Initiative: Tommorrow's Climate, Today's Challenge; the 2006 UK Climate Change Programme, climate and business initiatives, climate and energy policy, adapting to climate change, and research programmes.

What we are doing internationally
Information about international negotiations including the successful UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal in December 2005, UN process, the G8, developing countries, the EU, Kyoto Mechanisms and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

See also:

• Emissions trading
• Cost of carbon
• Publications and research
• Contacts

Related information

• www.climatechallenge.gov.uk
• Climate change and education
• Carbon offsetting

Key material

• UK Climate Change Programme