A new national £10m centre for climate change research is announced today which will investigate the full implications of climate change for the UK. The University of East Anglia will lead a consortium of nine institutions. The main ‘Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research’ as it will be called, will be based at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, and regional offices will be set up at the University of Southampton and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

The minister for science and innovation, Lord Sainsbury, said: "This new and exciting initiative brings together climate scientists, economists, social scientists, and engineers. It is essential they work together to assess fully the implications of climate change for the UK, and so help us make well-informed decisions about what to do."

The centre will complement the work sponsored by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions at the Hadley Centre and in the UK Climate Impacts Programme. It will contribute to the development of the UK’s strategies on mitigation and adaptation which were announced last month when the Government launched the UK Climate Change Programme.

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