Global Environmental Change Committee
The Global Environmental Change Committee (GECC) is an
inter-agency committee, chaired by Defra’s Chief Scientific Adviser
(CSA) and reporting to the Government CSA. Membership is
drawn from Government Departments, Research Councils and other
organisations. The committee was founded in 2001 and meets annually
in the autumn. Responsibility for management of the GECC and
all its subgroups except Biodiversity lies with the Climate and
Energy: Science and Analysis (CESA) team in the Department of
Energy and Climate Change. If you would like further
information about GECC please contact
email address: Andy_DOT_Chalmers_[AT SYMBOL]_decc_DOT_gsi_DOT_gov_DOT_uk (replace _DOT_ with full stop/period and _[AT SYMBOL]_ with the usual @ symbol)
GECC provides a forum for the coordination of the UK’s
involvement in climate change and other global environmental change
science and technology nationally and internationally, working
through sub-groups as required and taking into account the work of
other relevant coordination mechanisms and fora. Its Terms of
Reference are:
To review the effectiveness of the
national capacity, capability and performance in these areas and to
make recommendations;
To recommend to the Government’s
Chief Scientific Adviser a lead Department / Agency in areas of
science and technology where responsibility is unclear;
To ensure that Government policy on
climate change and other global environmental change issues is both
sufficiently informed by and informs the work undertaken by the
science base;
To support effective UK participation
in international climate change and other global environmental
change science and technology programmes;
To encourage effective communication
of climate change and other global environmental change science and
technology;
To report to CSAC on developments in
Climate Change S&T and other global environmental change
science.
GECC is supported by five sub-groups, intended as
ad hoc working groups dealing with specific issues as
needed. The following sub-groups were established in
2004:
Observations Global environmental research
coordination and agenda Global biodiversity Science – Policy forum Supercomputing and other capital
requirements
