Climate change is now widely recognised to be one of most severe threats to global biodiversity. Consequently many CCF member organisations are involved in a wide variety of studies and other initiatives that aim to investigate and tackle the causes and impacts of climate change. To support this work CCF has established a Climate Change Group, which primarily aims to facilitate information exchange on climate change issues and work within CCF.

The Climate Change Group exchanges information on scientific, socio-economic, legal and policy related issues of climate change, from local to global scales, but focuses on issues concerning impacts on biodiversity and climate change mitigation measures (including reduction and adaptation measures). In particular, its objectives are to:

• Distribute news on climate change issues relating to impacts on biodiversity.
• Provide information on climate change projects being carried out by CCF members, including announcements of new projects, progress updates and summaries of key results.
• Stimulate and organise discussion meetings.
• Publicise events by CCF members and others on climate change issues, particularly in the CCF area (see listings below).
  
• Promote the work that CCF is doing on climate change issues to the wider conservation community.
  

A Google Groups website has been established for the CCF Climate Change Group (http://groups.google.com/group/ccf-climate). This is the main means for group members to distribute news and other information. It is not used as a discussion forum. Open access is allowed to the group’s website so that all current and past postings can be viewed without registration. However, only registered members can post information on the site to the group.

Anyone with an interest and involvement in climate change issues can become members of the CCF Climate Change Group, and registration is easily and quickly done by visiting the Google Groups website, or using the following subscription:

Subscribe to CCF-climate

Email:

Visit this group

For further information please contact the CCF Climate Change Group coordinator, Graham Tucker.