Into Practice › Climate change and land management

According to the Government Chief Scientist, Professor Sir David King and to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), climate change is the biggest threat to our environment, with significant impacts across the globe. The UK is committed to the Kyoto protocol and to building an international consensus for cutting emissions and limiting the effects of climate change. Over the coming decades, land-based businesses will need to adapt to the effects of changing climatic conditions and at the same time modify practices to reduce their continuing impact on the environment. Predicting the impacts of climate change, developing strategies for adaptation to change and providing solutions for mitigating and minimising damaging emissions are important drivers for research at Rothamsted.

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Rothamsted Research receives
strategic funding from the BBSRC

• BBSRC Institutes

• Babraham Institute
• Institute for Animal Health
• Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences
• Institute of Food Research
• John Innes Centre
• Rothamsted Research
• The Genome Analysis Centre
• The Roslin Institute