2.2 UK adaptation policy and action plans

The following websites show how planning policy and economic development policy in the UK are being adapted in the face of climate change and some websites provides information about local initiatives that address climate change issues.

• The Stern Review, from the UK government’s Office of Climate Change. This review on the economics of climate change is universally regarded as the most comprehensive review ever carried out on the economics of climate change. It was published on 30 October 2006 and was lead by Lord Stern, the then head of the Government Economic Service and former World Bank chief economist.
• Q&A [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] from the Guardian newspaper on adaptations to climate change.
• Briefing outlining the impact of climate change upon water, including water resources and infrastructure, and discussing how the UK water industry is addressing them.
• 'The economic impact of EU and UK Climate Change legislation on the Manchester City region of the North West.'
• ‘Public Health – a study of the effects of climate change on public health in Hampshire, England, UK’.
• Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change in the Urban Environment’.
• ‘Adapting to climate change in England: a framework for action 2008’, the local government White Paper that includes an outline of planning policy.
• ‘Helping people change behaviour and take action’, from the UK government’s Department of Climate Change, outlines how the government is ensuring that individuals and businesses have the information, technology and motivation to take action to save energy. These changes include in routine behaviour and radical ways of saving energy.