10 December 2007
An interactive website to help businesses and individuals assess the likely impact of future climate change is to be launched by the government.
The site will mark the culmination of a Defra's £2m UK 21st Century Climate Change Scenarios research project. It will be based on five reports on the current climate and predicted changes. It is expected that the site will be launched late next year.
One of the reports that the site will be based was released last week and titled 'The Climate of the United Kingdom and Recent Trends'. It found that central England temperatures had risen by about a degree Celsius since the 1970s.
Defra said that this data, as well as subsequent data from the Met Office, would be made available through the website as a means of providing corporate decision makers with information on likely changes in climate.
The project was welcomed by environment minister Hilary Benn, who stated:
All of us - governments, businesses and individuals - need to be able to plan for the future. This groundbreaking initiative, when completed in late 2008, will be designed to help people investigate the possible future climate at the click of a mouse.
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