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CLimate
Following the success of winning
three major climate initiatives
(Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research – core partner;
UK Climate Impacts Programme
– host; UK Energy Research Centre
– core partner), the ECI has further
increased its portfolio in respect to
climate change research.
Our climate research is carried
out within the Oxford University
Centre for the Environment Climate
Systems and Policy Research
Cluster, by our James Martin 21st
Century School Research Fellows;
and Tyndall Research Fellows; as
well as through projects in our
Energy and Ecosystems research
themes. The UK Climate Impacts
Programme (UKCIP) helps
businesses and organisations assess
how they might be affected by
climate change, so they can prepare
for its impacts. ECI also hosts the
Global Environmental Change
and Food Systems Secretariat
(GECAFS), which works on climate
and food security.
Climate research at ECI consists
of projects grouped around five
core topics: Science, Impacts,
Adaptation, Mitigation, and
Communication.
Climate Science Research
The climate science and policy
communities are moving beyond
the traditional “one size fits all”
products which provide best
guesses, towards products which
allow for more nuanced approaches.
This allows policy makers and
climate modellers to do a much
better job of quantifying projections
than has been possible under
traditional approaches. In particular,
probabilistic approaches allow us to
explore a more representative range
of possible future climates, and may
permit meaningful estimation of
risk. These developments in turn
open up interesting new ways to
examine interactions between the
human decisions and the climate
response on timescales from
decades to centuries.
ScienceProjects
Climate Response
How do uncertainties in projections
of global climate change models
affect climate policy?
Atmosphere-Biosphere interactions in
Amazonia
The ECI’s Ecosystems research
theme is undertaking a number
of projects to further scientific
understanding of biosphere -
atmosphere interactions in tropical
forests.
Climate Impacts Research
Climate change will have wideranging
impacts on human and
non-human life. Focusing attention
Leader:
Professor Diana Liverman
on, and quantifying, these potential
impacts is vital to advising public,
private, and voluntary organisations
of the societal implications of a
changing climate. Equally, climatic
changes are likely to have effects
on ecosystems and observing and
predicting these changes are critical
challenges. Building understanding
between climate science and
impacts communities provides
the basis for constructing suitable
adaptation strategies.
ImpactsProjects
UK Climate Impacts Programme
UKCIP provides the public,
private, and voluntary sectors, as
well as the scientific community with
a range of tools and datasets which
support climate impact assessment
and adaptation planning.
Impacts of Climate Change on
Biodiversity
The ECI’s Ecosystem research
theme includes projects which
examine species’ response to
changing climate. This includes the
MONARCH and BRANCH projects.
Impact of the 2005 drought in
Amazonia
The severe drought which affected
Amazonia in 2005 provides a unique
opportunity to assess the impact and
response of biodiversity to extreme
conditions, which may become
more widespread in a warmer global
climate.