Mr. John Spink:

The work we do has a main focus but we always include - for example, if it is to do with climate change mitigation - consideration of the other issues, such as biodiversity. As Dr. O'Mara said, the signpost programme is mainly focused on greenhouse gas mitigation but it also covers water quality and considers biodiversity because we must be careful of the law of unintended consequences, that we might do something that is right for one issue, but make another issue worse.

It is fair to say that nationally, we are probably further behind on adaptation than we are with climate mitigation. It is an area where we are beginning to do more work. Internally, we just funded a large project on climate-change adaptation but like a lot of other countries, we are behind the curve in comparison to climate-change mitigation. Dr. O'Sullivan's area of expertise is multifunctional land use, so I will hand over to her for more specific comments.