Climate Ready Scotland: Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme.

Climate Ready Scotland: Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme (2014) is the first Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme as required by section 53 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. Climate Ready Scotland: Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme. The overarching aim of the Programme is to increase the resilience of Scotland’s people, environment and economy to the impacts of a changing climate; it sets out Scottish Ministers objectives in relation to adaptation to climate change, their proposals and policies for meeting those objectives, and the period within which those proposals and policies will be introduced, it also also sets out the arrangements for wider engagement in meeting those objectives.
The Programme is structured around three themes: 1) Natural Environment (outcome: a Scotland with a productive, healthy and diverse natural environment which is able to adapt to change); 2) Buildings and Infrastructure Networks (outcome: A Scotland with wellmanaged, resilient infrastructure and buildings providing access to the amenities and services we need); 3) Society (outcome: a Scotland with strong, healthy, resilient communities which are well informed and prepared for a changing climate).
Under each theme the Programme outlines three objectives and several actions. Follow some examples of the initiatives on food security: deliver the current programme of research work on the effects of climate change on Scottish food security; setting up a knowledge hub called Sourcing For Growth Initiative to match food manufacturing companies with producers of quality Scottish produce has been set up to build on the nation's growing gourmet reputation. In regard to forestry initiatives are: improve understanding on how we can develop more resilient forests, identify adaptation strategies for all types of woodlands, and demonstrate these in forest settings; undertake spatial modelling, based around different scenarios, of potential risks to existing forests; enhance collaborative research into tree pests and diseases; etc. In Agriculture the Programme envisages: to continue to fund the Strategic Research Portfolio in Rural and Environmental Science to improve the evidence base on the likely impacts of climate change on Scottish agriculture and ensure effective knowledge transfer of research outputs; to promote the Farming For A Better Climate Programme, an advisory programme for land managers to help them mitigate climate change through webbased advice & guidance, demonstration farms, farm events etc.