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1. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Address to the High-Level Segment of the UN Climate Change Conference, Bali, Indoesia, 12 December 2007. Full speech available from: http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/sgspeeches/ statments_full.asp?statID=161
2. IPCC, 2007: Summary for Policymakers, In: Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L Parry, O.F Canziani, J.P Palutikof, P.J van der Linden and C.E Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 7-22.
3. Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, available at: www.htm-treasury.gov.uk/Independent_Reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/sternreview.index.cfm
4. IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, available from: http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-syr.htm
5. SNIFFER, A Handbook of Climate Trends across Scotland 2006
6. The UK Climate Impacts Programme Scenarios 2002
7. IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, available from: http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-syr.htm
8. Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, available at: www.htm-treasury.gov.uk/Independent_Reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/sternreview.index.cfm
9. The 'four As' approach to resilience is also supported through the Scottish Government's emergency response operations, such as the Scottish Resilience Units, and approach to more sustainable flood management, as noted in the recent consultation document The Future of Flood Risk Management in Scotland.
10. Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, available at:
11. www.htm-treasury.gov.uk/Independent_Reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/sternreview.index.cfm
12. see e.g. guidance at http://www.sniffer.org.uk/whats_new.asp published by SNIFFER and developed with input from SEPA, Environment Agency, Environment and Heritage Service ( NI), SNH, NHS Health Scotland, Health Protection Scotland and the Food Standards Agency Scotland
13. The survey was not a census about climate adaptation activities in Scotland. It did not attempt to be representative of all activities in Scotland. It provided a way of examining a selection of current activities, and barriers to activities, taking place now.
14. Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, available at:
15. www.htm-treasury.gov.uk/Independent_Reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/sternreview.index.cfm
16. For more on the UK Climate Impacts Programme, visit their website http://www.ukcip.org.uk
17. Some of these principles are consistent with good participatory decision making and thus apply more widely than just adaptation decision-making processes. As such good adaptation is dependent on general good quality decision-making or good management.
18. The EU green paper Adapting to Climate Change in Europe - Options for EU Action can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/adaptation/index_en.htm
19. Further information on The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution's study Adapting the UK to Climate Change, can be found at http://www.rcep.org.uk/climatechangeadaptation.htm
20. Further information on the EAC's enquiry into Climate change and local, regional and devolved government can be found at: http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/environmental_audit_committee/eac_281107.cfm
21. The EU green paper Adapting to Climate Change in Europe - Options for EU Action can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/adaptation/index_en.htm
22. For further information on UK Climate Impacts Programme or the UKCIP08 scenarios, see http://www.ukcip.org.uk
23. For further information on UK Climate Impacts Programme or their publications, see http://www.ukcip.org.uk
24. Further information about Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental can be found at: http://www.sniffer.org.uk
25. For further information on UK Climate Impacts Programme or the 2002 scenarios, see http://www.ukcip.org.uk
26. Further information about Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research or the Handbook of Climate Trends across Scotland can be found at:
    http://www.sniffer.org.uk/climatehandbook
27. For further information on the UK Climate Impacts Programme or the 2002 climate scenarios, see http://www.ukcip.org.uk
28. This projection was informed by the UKCIP 2002 climate scenarios, under all future emissions scenarios (low, medium, medium-high and high emissions productions). For further information, see http://www.ukcip.org.uk
29. This projection was informed by the UKCIP 2002 climate scenarios, which show little change to average precipitation amounts each year under a medium-high emissions production scenario by the 2080s.
30. This projection is informed by UKCIP 2002 climate scenarios, under the assumption of medium-high future emissions productions and by the 2080s. For further information see http://www.ukcip.org.uk
31. This projection is informed by UKCIP 2002 climate scenarios, under the assumption of medium-high future emissions productions and by the 2080s. For further information see http://www.ukcip.org.uk

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