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...
Professor Jason Lowe reflects on how the UK Climate Resilience programme is playing an increasing role in helping to better estimate risks from present and future weather and climate variability During the weeks of...
By Dr Freya Garry, Met Office After excitedly submitting an abstract in January to attend my favourite conference, the world changed in ways that those of us who don’t study pandemics never really contemplated before....
Twenty four organisations are participating in a call for UK-based academic researchers to apply for 29 funded placements with them on proposals to address aspects of climate resilience. Host organisations for the UK Climate Resilience Embedded Researcher scheme range from Anglian Water to the Church of England, along...
Public opinion on climate change is shifting but to keep it at the top of the political and public agenda will require a sustained effort for decades to come, says Adam Corner In Britain, we...
