The UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) helps organisations assess how they might be affected by
climate change, so they can prepare for its impact. Set up in April 1997, UKCIP is funded by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) and based at the University of Oxford. We work with our stakeholders and co-ordinate research on how climate change will have an impact at regional and national levels. This means that our stakeholders or partners commission the research and determine the research agenda, ensuring that it meets their needs. UKCIP provides support and guidance throughout the process for both stakeholders and researchers, and provides a bridge between researchers and decision-makers in government organisations and business.
UKCIP has been the catalyst for a range of regional and sectoral studies into the impacts of climate change. UKCIP is part of a wider programme of research into climate change being undertaken by Defra.