Climate Change and its Implications for Land Management

31 October 2006

The CLA's London Branch met at the Royal Geographical Society in October to assess the impact of climate change on the countryside. The speakers addressed the implications for land management as set out in the recent report published by the CLA and the University of East Anglia's (UEA) Climatic Research Unit. The report, entitled Climate Change and the European Countryside - Impacts on Land Management and Response Strategies, was supported by funding from the East of England Development Agency (EEDA). CLA were pleased to have EEDA's Chairman Richard Ellis, to chair the meeting.

Dr David Viner from the UEA set out the stark realities of climate change, followed by Karl Cradick, Director of Savills, who explained how the planning system is responding, citing such initiatives as Energy Performance Certificates which will be required from 2007 for all buildings when constructed, sold or rented.

Holkham estate in Norfolk was one of the estates surveyed in the CLA report and Viscount Coke explained the estate's fuel efficiency audit, water conservation and low cost sewage treatment plant, as well as the predicted significant loss of land from sea level rise. Professor Allan Buckwell, CLA Chief Economist, explained Carbon Accounting for Land Managers (CALM), a process which is outlined in the second half of the CLA's report. CALM uses Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) methodology to measure on-farm greenhouse gas emissions, setting them against the carbon storage to enable land managers to monitor the differences made by, for example, the use of renewable energy and nitrogen recycling.

The event was sponsored by EEDA and Savills.

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