 In 2004, a natural gas interconnection agreement was signed between the United Kingdom and Ireland, linking Ireland with Scotland via the Isle of Man.In 2011, the members of the British-Irish Council agreed an "All Islands Approach (AIA)" to electricity grid infrastructure and have launched a programme of joint work examining renewable energy trading as well as interconnection and market integration.The United Kingdom and Ireland share a number civic bodies such as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, that provides sea-rescue across Britain and Ireland.