Conserving geodiversity in a changing climate

On 4 June 2009, the country conservation bodies, JNCC and the Geoconservation Commission of the Geological Society of London (http://www.geoconservation.com/) convened a meeting to further the understanding of climate change and its effects on geodiversity.

The intention was to bring together a range of people that are involved in conserving geological and geomorphological sites – and soils. The geoconservation community offers invaluable experience to the climate change debate – with knowledge about its predicted effects on biodiversity as well as geodiversity, with evidence covering millions of years of climate change, ice-ages, and mass extinctions gleaned from the geological record. However, the focus of this meeting was to evaluate what additional steps may need to be taken to conserve geodiversity itself, in a world of rapidly changing climatic conditions.

For more information on the event and its findings please visit the JNCC website at www.jncc.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=4943