Climate change
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Research problems linked to this topic
- How can the vulnerability and role of habitats alongside transport infrastructure be better understood regarding climate change, pests, and disease? How can we increase resilience?
- How can monitoring and weather forecasting techniques be improved and implemented to reduce the impacts of climate change on transport infrastructure?
- How can the effectiveness of adaptation programmes within the transport infrastructure industry be measured and evaluated?
- Are some countries further ahead, and by what degree, in climate tech resilience than others?
- How can we best support the scale up of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) industry and DfT’s chosen strategic ambitions for the UK SAF sector?
- How do we harness technological advances to support our sectors reduce exposure and vulnerability to climate risk?
- How can we develop a more detailed understanding of the benefits that modernising UK airspace will bring, including carbon reductions, noise impacts, reduced delays, increased resilience, and increased capacity to allow for growth?
- How can we best model and understand the impacts on a global level of environmental policy actions?
- How will new and emerging aviation technology such as unmanned aircraft, advanced air mobility, provide environmental benefits or disbenefits and what environmental assessment techniques should be applied?
- How might future extreme weather, such as flooding and storms, heatwaves, and wildfires, affect the reliability and durability of: (i) underground fibre ducting; (ii) overhead cabling; (iii) mobile masts; (iv) hybrid wireless solutions such as satellite connectivity; (v) system wide vulnerabilities?
- What can comparative advantage tell us, in the context of production shifts arising from climate change?
- What are the relative merits of existing, emerging, and future technologies in helping to decarbonise aviation? What adaptations will be required for the aviation sector to successfully adopt new zero-emission technologies?
- What is the current level of maritime emissions and how is this expected to change in the future?
- What evidence exists to enable the DfT to further enhance its ability to forecast aviation GHG emissions and non-CO2 impacts and model the impact of potential policy action?
- How do network providers, internet service providers and mobile connectivity providers plan and consider the risks of climate change within the UK to the longevity of infrastructure? Are their considerations and plans sufficient for the expected extent of climate change?
- How can behavioural science be used to encourage people and organisations to make more sustainable travel choices?
- What initiatives and activities work in reducing the sector’s environmental and climate impacts?
- What is the risk to AHT assets from climate change and how can these risks be mitigated?
- How will changes in the UK’s climate including frequency of extreme weather events impact the operation of the transport network?
- The greenhouse effect is involving global heating and climate change within the world.
- Carbonaceous particles, as one of the main sources of atmospheric aerosols, have great influence on the climate change, such as ice formation, precipitation and polar ice melting.
- Climate change and its consequences have severely affected Nepalese agriculture.
- Freshwater fish populations are facing multiple stressors, including climate change, species invasion, and anthropogenic interference.
- Climate change is the greatest public health threat of the 21st century and is associated with environmental degradation and deleterious health consequences.
- Arboviral diseases are a global growing problem due to climate change, urbanization, population density, global transportation.
- Quantification of cyclonic and anticyclonic storms using simulated and observed sea level pressure data
- The growing concern about global climate change and its adverse impacts on societies is putting severe pressure on the construction industry as one of the largest producers of greenhouse gases.
- Scientific and societal unknowns make it difficult to predict how global environmental changes such as climate change and biological invasions will affect ecological systems.
- Climate change has been posited as the biggest threat to crop productivity in agro-systems, yet its impact on the water footprints of crop production for many regions remains uncertain.
- With climate change, global warming has increased adverse effects on living things in our country.
- Climate change is affecting biodiversity worldwide, with evidence mounting about its impacts on different ecologies, groups of species and stages of a species lifecycle
- CO2 capture, storage and utilization (CCUS) is one of the dominant strategies to mitigate climate change but high capture cost is still a common challenge of existing techniques
- Climate change is a major environmental concern and the melting processes of the glaciers and snow-packs are sensitive to climate change.
- Oceanic conditions play an important role in determining the effects of climate change and these effects need to be monitored.
- To what extent is the market and actors within it able to withstand environmental and climate shocks to deliver a continuous and reliable service?
- How can we evaluate best practice intervention for addressing climate change and gender equality?
- How can we monitor emissions arising as a result of digital consumption?
- How can policing establish sustainable science and technology development and procurement practices that contribute to policing’s Net Zero commitments?
- What impact would the introduction of carbon border taxes have on regional trade flows?
- What are the interdependencies between addressing different environmental impacts (e.g., CO2 and noise)?
- How will future global trends such as climate change and biodiversity loss impact the security and resilience of UK and global transport systems?
- How can international governance, emerging technologies (including climate tech) and digital agreements be used to achieve Net Zero and support environmental sustainability?
- Estimating the climate change impact of the space sector, across the entire value chain. Analysing and proposing methods and mechanisms to reduce this impact. Estimating how space sector products (e.g., earth observation) can support broader climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts. What is the role of government in this context?
- What are the biggest environmental risks impacting on the educational system and student outcomes, and how can they be mitigated?
- What are the downstream impacts of climate change on criminality and policing’s operating model?
- How can we better understand novel uses or applications of AI in the geospatial ecosystem, such as in the analysis of Earth Observation and Population Movement data, 3D visualisation, and climate modelling?
- What are more carbon-efficient practices that the police should look to adopt when responding to incidents?
- Are telecoms networks a net contributor or mitigator of GHG emissions, and will their net emissions grow or shrink in the future?
- How can education and care sectors best respond to environmental climate related risks or future pandemics to limit the impact on education?
- How long does it take for the CO2eq emissions from the production, shipping, installation and use of fibre to result in a net emission saving overuse of copper?
- What data and evidence are required to support risk-based investment in transport infrastructure to ensure the industry is sufficiently prepared for extreme weather events? Are there any evidence gaps in the existing data?
- What measures could help minimise the risks of de-forestation, biodiversity, and habitat loss in producer countries, without creating excessive trade distortion?
- What new environmental techniques should be utilised in the analysis of road schemes that are not currently set out in Transport Analysis Guidance?
- What sustainable vehicle alternatives can policing turn to that are capable of meeting requirements for performance and weight?
- Where do interactions exist between climate adaptation in transport infrastructure and other net zero or natural environment policies? Are there any co-benefits/trade-offs and how can we implement solutions that deliver on all these priorities?
- What behaviour change will be required by the public and industry to adapt to the impacts of climate change on transport infrastructure.
- With growing preference for greener investments, how should sustainability goals be balanced with ensuring all sectors can continue to access financial markets?
- How will climate change/energy insecurity impact the UK’s telecoms networks? To what extent are our networks (directly or indirectly) vulnerable to climate change e.g. voltage instability during heat waves? For further relevant questions on network resilience see BDUK section 3.
- Assess and explain the impact of AHT sectors on climate change and contribution to net zero objectives. What works to mitigate the sectors’ impact to climate change and achieve these objectives?
- What are the skills, capabilities, and knowledge gaps within the transport infrastructure industry to effectively implement adaptation to climate change now and in the future?
- How can we encourage more sustainable travel behaviours?
- How can standard methodologies measuring greenhouse gas emissions be applied to the creative industries and its sub-sectors? Which, if any, aspects of standard emissions measurement needs to be adjusted to creative industries activities while ensuring consistency and cross sector comparisons?
- What is telecom’s role in achieving net zero and the impact of changing climate? To what extend is telecoms a driver of energy efficiency within and across sectors?
- What is the current and potential future impact of climate change on creative businesses, their operations and productivity?
- What is the current role of material/construction innovation in adapting transport infrastructure to extreme weather events and are these solutions readily available? What future developments are anticipated in material/construction innovation and how long before these may become mainstream?
- What is the potential decarbonisation benefit that maritime autonomy can offer?
- What are the most effective and equitable transport related actions that can be taken to reduce emissions of (and exposure to) transport related air pollution (from particulates and NOx) in vulnerable communities, while helping growth, access to jobs and accessibility in more deprived areas?
- What role does international travel play in people’s understanding of their personal carbon footprint? How do people think about occasional large-emitting activities versus day-to-day small changes?