Living with Environmental Change brings together 22 organisations that fund or use environmental research to optimise the coherence and effectiveness of UK environmental research funding and to ensure government, business and society have the foresight, knowledge and tools to mitigate, adapt to and capitalise on environmental change. For more details of the partner organisations and accredited activities, see www.lwec.org.uk

Key Facts:     

• The Living with Environmental Change Programme is a partnership of 22 UK-based organisations who fund, carry out and use environmental work www.lwec.org.uk/partners

• The partnership brings together £1bn (over five years) of environmental research and is the biggest environmental research programme ever to be undertaken in the UK.

• The programme was launched in 2007 and there is a commitment for 10 years of partnership working.

• LWEC programme addresses 6 key challenges www.lwec.org.uk/challenges

1.  To predict the impacts of climate change and to promote sustainable solutions through mitigation and adaptation.

2.  To manage ecosystem services for human well-being and to protect the natural environment in a changing world.

3.  To promote human well-being, alleviate poverty and minimise waste by ensuring a sustainable supply of food and water.

4.  To protect human, plant and animal health from diseases, pests and hazards in a changing environment

5.  To make infrastructure, the built environment and transport systems resilient to environmental change, less carbon intensive and more socially acceptable.

6.  To understand how people respond to a changing environment and develop thriving, cohesive and informed communities

The LWEC accredited activities are organised under the objectives; some activities contribute to more than one objective. A full list of current accredited activities is available here www.lwec.org.uk/activities