Climate change risks to biodiversity workshop

Scottish Natural Heritage organised a workshop on 'Understanding the risks of climate change to Scotland's biodiversity and ecosystems' on 28th June 2010 at Battleby, Perth.

This workshop learned about current research by public bodies on the risks of climate change to biodiversity and ecosystems in Scotland and the UK. Participants discussed experience of different approaches.  They considered what knowledge is needed to inform strategies to help Scottish biodiversity to adapt to climate change.

You can download the slides from the presentations, and reports of discussions below:

• Summary of Discussions and Conclusions    
• Workshop programme 
• Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Framework   - Charles Stewart Roper, Scottish Government.  
• The First UK Climate Change Risk Assessment   - Iain Brown, Macaulay Institute.  
• SNH's climate change research   - John Baxter, Scottish Natural Heritage.
• Macaulay Institute climate change impacts research   - Alessandro Gimona, Macaulay Institute. 
• Forest Research work on climate change impacts   - Duncan Ray, Forest Research.
• Natural England's climate change research   - Mike Morecroft, Natural England.
• CCW's climate change research   - Rob McCall, Countryside Council for Wales.
• Defra's Priority habitats and climate change project   - Brian Eardley, Scottish Natural Heritage.
• CHAINSPAN and BICCO-Net projects   - James Pearce Higgins, British Trust for Ornithology.
• List of participants