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About Climate Change

A combination of climate change and increasing vulnerability will conspire to increase natural hazard and risk during the current century and beyond. Great uncertainties exist, however, in terms of the temperature rises expected, the effect of warming on local, regional and global weather and climate patterns, and the impact of possible catastrophic events such as shutdown of the Atlantic Conveyor current system. Climate change interests in the Centre include:

• Marine margin instabilities and environmental change
• Abrupt ‘human-scale’ global climate change
• Deep-water circulation influence on global climate
• Ocean productivity and atmospheric carbon dioxide response
• Insurance and climate change

For further information about climate change contact: Dr. Mark Maslin at: mmaslin@geog.ucl.ac.uk

For information about the insurance perspective contact: Professor David Crichton at: david@crichton.sol.co.uk

UCL report slams government estimates for carbon emission reductions.
In a major new report for the Channel 4 Programme, Dispatches, Professor Mark Maslin, Director of the UCL Environment Institute and member of the BUHRC, and colleagues, show that UK government plans for carbon emissions reductions are doomed to failure. As things stand, the report indicates, the 30 percent target reduction by 2030 will not be achieved, with cuts in the range of just 12 - 17 percent more likely. Without considerably more clout, current government guidelines for cutting emissions may mean that a 30 percent cut is not reached until 2050.
Read the full report here (pdf 2.81MB)

BUHRC Technical Paper No 2: Climate Change 2004
See Climate Change 2004 (pdf 3.57mb), BHRC Technical Paper No 2, for a review of of recent climate change research and observations.

Presentation by David Crichton
Insurance and Climate Change (pdf 168kb)
A presentation by David Crichton given at the Conference on Climate Change, Extreme Events and Coastal Cites: Houston and London, 9 Feb 2005

Contraction and Convergence
A DVD commissioned by the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change presenting Contraction and Convergence has been distributed to all UK MPs and Peers. It is endorsed by numerous eminent spokespersons who are interviewed at length on the DVD.

Copies of the DVD can be obtained by written request to
GCI aubrey.meyerbtinternet.com

For more information about Contraction and Convergence, go to the Global Commons Institute website at www.gci.org.uk