VII: GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Adaptation - The adjustment in economic, social or natural systems in response to actual or expected climatic change, to limit harmful consequences and exploit beneficial opportunities.
Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership ( MCCIP) - A UK wide partnership between scientists, government, its agencies and non-governmental organisations, which provides high-quality marine climate change impacts evidence and advice to policy advisors and decision makers.
Mitigation - The implementation of policies and actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance carbon storage.
Regulation - A governmental or ministerial legal order which imposes specific rules, provisions or restrictions on particular activities. For effective sustainable adaptation, it is important to ensure that, wherever possible, regulation assists, rather than hinders activities to address the issues of climate change.
Scottish Climate Change Impacts Partnership ( SCCIP) - A free information and resource hub which focuses on helping individuals and organisations in Scotland adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. Its core aim is to "increase the resilience of organisations and infrastructure in Scotland to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by the impacts of climate change".
UK Climate Impacts Programme ( UKCIP) - UKCIP helps organisations to adapt to inevitable climate change. It works with the public, private and voluntary sectors to assess how a changing climate will affect everything from construction and demand for goods and services, to biodiversity and health.
UK Climate Projections 2009 - A major product produced by UKCIP is the UK Climate Projections 2009. These represent the most comprehensive package of future climate information available for the UK to date. They provide probabilistic projections of climate change up to 2099 over both land and sea and contain sub-surface marine data and a weather generator to produce statistical daily and hourly data.