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Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council Welsh Local Authorities gritting information (alphabetical order) Info and map of gritting routes Bridgend County Borough Council Caerphilly County Borough Council The City of Cardiff Council Carmarthenshire County Council Ceredigion County Council Conwy County

in building partnerships, preferences. 1-page and benefits update from on progress face-to-face issued every interaction 6 months to at key outset. partners, highlighting their areas of interest. FCFA FRACTAL project • Flexible, emergent approach to understanding city processes and burning issues

. 2015) found that human influence on the climate has resulted in an 11-fold increase in the likelihood of extremely hot spring mean temperatures in northern China, like those of 2014. The research also found that the growth of cities and urbanisation has played a small but identifiable role

and damage to buildings and vegetation. Poor air quality episodes can cover geographic areas from a single city to larger regions, and normally last from days to weeks. Certain air pollutants (such as ozone (O3) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5)) are also ‘radiatively active’, which means

drawing a hot Tropical Continental Airmass; this type of pressure pattern being typical of heatwave conditions across the UK. Temperatures on the 9th reached 31 to 32°C fairly widely across south-east England, and 33°C in London. As often happens in the UK, the heat and humidity lead to some intense

increase may not seem significant, the resulting increase in the severity of extreme heat events has widespread and significant impacts.   Such hotter, drier weather has increased the scale, intensity, and frequency of destructive wildfires in many regions worldwide. Wildfires significantly impact

Case studies The following are examples of how the UKCP products have been used by different organisations across the UK since its launch in 2018.  Bristol City Council Factsheets (PDF - 657kB) In collaboration with Bristol City Council, the Met Office produced factsheets to provide an overview

reliance on food imports will leave food systems vulnerable to price volatility in global markets, potentially raising food prices. Increasing reliance on food imports also creates vulnerability to climate impacts on agricultural production in global breadbaskets. Cities and infrastructure

of specific users in Europe Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL): Led by the Climate System Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town, and jointly funded by DFID and NERC through the Future Climate for Africa Programme (FCFA), the project is focused on climate risks and decision making

is currently in the atmosphere. Thawing permafrost has potentially damaging consequences, not just for greenhouse gas emissions, but also the stability of buildings located in high-latitude cities. Around 35 million people live in the permafrost zone, with three cities built on continuous permafrost along