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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.
Government responses to the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) annual progress reports.
The 2023 Health Effects of Climate Change (HECC) report provides an analysis of how climate change makes extreme weather events such as cold, more intense and variable.
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.
The report produced by UKHSA climate scientists reviews evidence on how climate change affects mental health and the interventions that protect and improve it.
The Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF) supports the development and deployment of technologies that enable businesses with high energy use to transition to a low carbon future.
Advises how to identify suitable mitigation and adaptation measures in the planning process to address the impacts of climate change.
Children and young people are at heightened risk from the mental health and wellbeing impacts of climate change but there are ways to support them.
Climate change is negatively impacting mental health and wellbeing. These impacts are not distributed equally.
The 2023 Health Effects of Climate Change (HECC) report provides an analysis of how climate change makes extreme weather events in the UK, including more intense and frequent heatwaves.
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