CabinetOffice PSA Delivery Agreement 27: Lead the global effort to avoid dangerous climate change London: HMSO 2007 Sets out the six indicators that will be used to assess progress on the climate change Public Service Agreement: (1) Global CO2 emissions to 2050; (2) Proportion of areas with sustainable abstraction of water; (3) Size of the global carbon market; (4) Total UK greenhouse gas and CO2 emissions; (5) Greenhouse gas and CO2 intensity of the UK economy; (6) Proportion of emissions reductions from new policies below the Shadow Price of Carbon IntergovernmentalPanel on ClimateChange Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007: Working Group III Report: Mitigation of Climate Change Geneva: IPCC 2007 The Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC Working Group III, "Mitigation of Climate Change", aims to answer essentially five questions relevant to policymakers worldwide: (1) What can we do to reduce or avoid climate change? (2) What are the costs of these actions and how do they relate to the costs of inaction? (3) How much time is available to realise the drastic reductions needed to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere? (4) What are the policy actions that can overcome the barriers to implementation? (5) How can climate mitigation policy be aligned with sustainable development policies? IntergovernmentalPanel on ClimateChange Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007: Working Group I Report: The Physical Science Basis Geneva: IPCC 2007 The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding of the human and natural drivers of climate change, observed climate change, climate processes and attribution, and estimates of projected future climate change. It builds upon past IPCC assessments and incorporates new findings from the past six years of research. Scientific progress since the Third Assessment Report (TAR) is based upon large amounts of new and more comprehensive data, more sophisticated analyses of data, improvements in understanding of processes and their simulation in models and more extensive exploration of uncertainty ranges. IntergovernmentalPanel on ClimateChange Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007: The AR4 Synthesis Report Geneva: IPCC 2007 Working Group I reports on the Physical Science Basis of Climate Change. This report addresses the key areas of climate change research and shows that the warming of the climate system is unequivocal. Working Group II examines the future likely impacts of climate change on the planet, its vulnerability and capacity to adapt. The content of the report is wide-ranging, outlining predicted impacts for all continents and identifying major systems with specific detail. Communities LocalGovernment National Indicators for Local Authorities and Local Authority Partnerships: Handbook of Definitions. Annex 4: Local Economy and Environmental Sustainability London: CLG 2008 The publication gives final detailed definitions for the economic and sustainable development indicators of the national indicators set of 198 that were announced in October 2007. Communities LocalGovernment Strong and Prosperous Communities - The Local Government White Paper London: CLG 2006 The aim of this White Paper is to give local people and local communities more influence and power to improve their lives. It is about creating strong, prosperous communities and delivering better public services through a rebalancing of the relationship between central government, local government and local people. Departmentfor Business,Enterprise RegulatoryReform Energy measures report. Addressing climate change and fuel poverty: energy measures information for local government London: BERR 2007 This Energy Measures Report, published on 18 September 2007, sets out the steps that local authorities can take to: improve energy efficiency; increase the levels of microgeneration and low carbon technologies; reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and reduce the number of households living in fuel poverty. Departmentfor Environment,Food RuralAffairs Sustainable development indicators in your pocket 2007 "On 27 July 2007 an update of the national indicators was published both as a free pocket booklet Sustainable development indicators in your pocket 2007 and here on the sustainable development website. Indicators at international, regional and local levels have also been established" HMGovernment The UK Climate Change Programme London: HMSO 2006 The Climate Change Programme, published in 2006, sets out our policies and priorities for action in the UK and internationally. We also made a commitment to introduce an annual report to Parliament. Subsequently, the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 placed an obligation on us to report to Parliament on greenhouse gas emissions in the UK and action taken by Government to reduce these emissions. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007 The Report provides a comprehensive assessment of the climate change literature. The opening chapter is on observed changes, and addresses the question of whether observed changes in the natural and managed environment are associated with anthropogenic climate change. Chapter 2 deals with the methods available for impacts analysis, and with the scenarios of future climate change which underpin these analyses. These are followed by the core chapters, which assess the literature on present day and future climate change impacts on systems, sectors and regions, vulnerabilities to these impacts, and strategies for adaptation. Chapters 17 and 18 consider possible responses through adaptation and the synergies with mitigation. The two final chapters look at key vulnerabilities, and the interrelationships between climate change and sustainability. Chapters 9 to 16 of the Working Group II Fourth Assessment consider regional climate change impacts.