The impact of climate change is one of the biggest and most complicated challenges facing society today. We are developing a holistic climate change impact model to answer fundamental questions

• How will the anticipated climate change affect our living environment, from our landscape to the oceans around us, from natural hazards to the quality and availability of water?
• How will these impacts, including our own responses, feed back to the processes of climate change?

The earth is a complex system, and its geology provides unique lessons in how it has responded to abrupt changes in the past. We will combine the lessons drawn from deep-time with an understanding of earth-surface processes to allow policy makers and individuals to make informed choices about mitigation and adaptation.

Related research

• Deep-time climate reponses
• Coastal change
• Landscape evolution
• Sustainability of the Earth's surface environment
• Greenhouse Earth – the story of ancient climate change

• Deep-time climate reponses
• Coastal change
• Landscape evolution
• Sustainability of the Earth's surface environment
• Greenhouse Earth – the story of ancient climate change
• BGS involvement with CO₂ storage at the Sleipner field, beneath the North Sea
• UK CO₂