The problem The UK has seen many big flooding events since the start of the 21st century, including during the winters of 2013/14, 2015/16 and 2019/20, the autumn of 2000, 2019, and the summer of...
COP26 is fast approaching where the eyes of the world will be on the UK’s actions to build climate resilience, reach net-zero, and coordinate action on local and national scales. Climate services will be vital...
Climate Exp0’s Adaptation and Resilience Day (20 May 2021) included a session on Enablers and barriers to the practice of adaptation – from mainstreaming to transformation. The session Chair, Kate Lonsdale (co-Champion, UK Climate Resilience...
Project Manager Jennifer Dicks shares three ways the UK Shared Socioeconomic Pathways project can help the climate resilience research community here in the UK. As we approach the end of our UK-SSPs project, we are bringing...
Paul Sayers, of Sayers and Partners, project lead for UKCR project AquaCAT, on climate change driven changes to UK flood risk Spatially coherent (widespread) flood events can cause significant damage and disruption in the UK....
Paula Harrison, Simona Pedde and Zuzana Harmáčková from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) provide the latest update on the ongoing UK-SSPs project. They share more about what socio-economic scenarios are, why they are...
By Katty Huang and Andrew Charlton-Perez The Problem Weather and climate can have great impacts on human health. One aspect of this is in relation to temperature exposure. In the UK, around 9% of deaths...
Jen Dicks, Project Manager for UKCR project UK-SSPs, explains that “shared socioeconomic pathways” can be viewed as different storylines of future socioeconomic circumstances, helping to inform what impact our society and economy might have on...
UKCR co-Champion Kate Lonsdale and professional facilitator Penny Walker reflect on recent experience of online event design and facilitation How did this come about? Kate Lonsdale: I had been looking forward to hosting a small,...
Professor Jim Hall on a game-changing new project to assess climate risk The UK Climate Resilience Programme has just announced the award of its flagship research project on “Enhancing climate change risk assessment capability”. The...
A recent paper by Priestley PhD researcher Rachel Harcourt explores how UK newspapers talk about hot weather risks. May was the sunniest month ever recorded in the UK, and these last few days of June...
