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Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
The Centre for Climate and Health Security provides scientific advice to partners at all levels ensuring climate change and extreme weather impacts on public health are included in system design. CCHS is part of the UK Health Security Agency .
Advises how to identify suitable mitigation and adaptation measures in the planning process to address the impacts of climate change.
A research programme to help the UK adapt and become more resilient to the impacts of climate change.
International Climate Finance (ICF) is a UK government commitment to support developing countries to respond to the challenges and opportunities of climate change.
This section looks at climate change communication, its emotional impacts and the support options.
The 2023 Health Effects of Climate Change (HECC) report highlights how climate change intensifies and increases the frequency of extreme weather. This page provides key takeaways from the HECC report, specifically on the hazard: heat.
We're creating a new Youth Climate and Nature Panel to put the voices of younger people at the heart of climate and nature policies.
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) advises the government on emissions targets and reports to Parliament on progress made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. CCC is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Energy Security and Net...
This page summarises Chapter 7 of the Health Effects of Climate Change (HECC) report with a focus on the impact of heat on climate and infectious diseases. This is part of the science and stats section for the hazard: heat.
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