UK Climate Change Risk Assessment

The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (UK CCRA) is investigating what the impacts of climate change will be on our economy, society and environment. The Climate Change Act requires that a UK-wide climate change risk assessment be carried out every five years, and the first cycle will report to Parliament by January 2012. The UK CCRA is currently engaging the English areas, including the East Midlands, to get our input to the risk assessment. It is likely that a stakeholder event for the East Midlands will be held during the second round of Changing Climate Weeks, in November. We are well-placed to feed useful information into the UK CCRA, because all the upper-tier Local Authorities in the East Midlands have already completed climate change risk assessments of their service areas, as part of the regionally-coordinated Planning to Adapt project.

Find out more about the UK CCRA: http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climate/adaptation/ccra/