About SCCIP
What is SCCIP?
The Scottish Climate Change Impacts Partnership (SCCIP) is an initiative that brings together stakeholders in Scotland to collectively address and prepare for the impacts of climate change. SCCIP was established to “increase the resilience of organisations and infrastructure in Scotland to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by the impacts of climate change”.
While SCCIP majors on climate change adaptation, SCCIP recognise that adaptation forms part of the bigger climate change agenda, and hence will continue to liaise with those organisations working on climate change mitigation. The UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) provide the lead on climate change adaptation work in the UK at a strategic level, with SCCIP providing the local dimension to this work in Scotland.
SCCIP aims to support Scotland in addressing the challenge of climate change. It endeavours to do this by increasing the awareness and preparedness of organisations affected by climate change and, where appropriate, by facilitating their adaptation to the unavoidable consequences of our changing climate. As such, SCCIP contributes to Scotland’s desire to play a lead role in tackling climate change.
SCCIP aims to contribute to a future where Scotland is adapting well to the impacts of climate change and where it has the capacity to continue to successfully develop adaptation messages. There will be greater co-ordination and collective action between organisations; relevant research will have been initiated, disseminated and acted upon; best practice will be shared across relevant organisations, and there will be an improvement in the awareness and understanding of climate change impacts.
SCCIP objectives:
- SCCIP promotes awareness and understanding of climate change impacts affecting Scotland whilst supporting organisations in meeting the challenges and opportunities these impacts present.
- SCCIP seeks to strengthen Scotland’s adaptation response as a whole by providing strategic links between localised or individual activity.
- SCCIP engages with and seeks to strengthen individual organisations resilience to a changing climate.
SCCIP is funded by the Scottish Government and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to take forward a number of activities for the year 2007/08. The Scotland & Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER) provide the secretariat for SCCIP.
Find out more by reading the new SCCIP Work Programme 2008-09. To view a report on past events and projects, read the new SCCIP Work Programme Report 2007-08.
We welcome your interest and involvement in the partnership. Information and access to this website is open to all. If, however, you are an organisation with interests in Scotland you can become part of the information network which will keep you updated on climate change developments in Scotland.
