climate adaptation
'The pandemic has shown how unprepared we are': Why the Covid-19 recovery must help economies bolster climate resilience
Leading scientists and economists call for post-pandemic recovery efforts to address climate adaptation and Covid-19
Climate adaptation: Could nature based solutions help bridge the gap?
Huge shortfall in financing for climate adaptation measures means global efforts to tackle the climate crisis are akin to 'going into battle blindfolded with one hand tied behind our backs', UN warns
'Real risk to wellbeing': UK summer temperatures set to rise faster than global average, study finds
Research mapping 40 years of future global climate trends has concluded that temperatures in the UK are set to increase faster than other parts of the world
Wet winter warning: Labour calls for flood preparedness taskforce
Opposition accuses government of 'letting down flood-hit communities yet again' as new analysis suggests flood recovery grants have not been fully distributed
Retiring 'Dad's Army'? Government publishes updated climate adaptation plan
UK becomes one of the first countries to submit Adaptation Communication to the UN
Airbus moves into climate 'superforecasting' with government space contract
Measurements of reflected light from Earth's surface collected by satellites will enable scientists to make more accurate climate forecasts, according to the aerospace giant
Met Office warns UK to prepare for more weather extremes
New projections point to record breaking heat and rainfall in the coming years posing costly challenges for health and infrastructure
Adapting to 4C of global warming
Emma Howard Boyd's speech to the Committee on Climate Change's Adapting to 3C+ of global warming conference
'Covid-19 has made risk everybody's business': Agencies urge world leaders to beef up extreme weather warning systems
UN-backed report calls on policymakers to dramatically increase funding for early warning systems that can boost nations' resilience to extreme weather events in response to rising threat from extreme storms, droughts, floods, and wildfires
Could a UK heatwave exacerbate the coronavirus crisis?
'A heatwave coupled with a second wave of Covid-19 infections would put enormous strain on our already overburdened doctors, nurses and other key workers'
'A duty to prepare': National Infrastructure Commission warns UK must bolster resilience efforts
Wide-ranging report warns UK's 'robust historic resilience' under threat from climate change and growing risk of unanticipated shocks
Green buildings: Greater focus on climate adaptation and mitigation in updated BREEAM standard
BRE announces most significant update to leading sustainable buildings standard in five years
Rising seas: Work begins on £40m tidal defence scheme in Great Yarmouth
Upgrades to flood defences in Great Yarmouth will help protect the town against flooding driven by climate change
Report: Climate adaptation policies in place in over 170 countries
Adaptation is growing in importance as impacts of climate emergency grow, researchers warn
Governments and businesses seek resilience in a changing climate
As the billion dollar losses stack up, more and more businesses are being forced to develop climate resilience strategies
BSI publishes first standard to help firms adapt to climate change
New standard provides a framework to help companies assess climate risk across their business and develop adaptation measures and strategies
'Economic self-interest': Climate adaptation essential for future prosperity, experts warn
Governments and businesses around the world should accelerate spending on climate resilience, according to new report from group chaired by Bill Gates, Ban Ki-Moon and World Bank chief Kristalina Georgieva
Hotter, wetter, sunnier: UK's 10 warmest years have all occurred since 2002
Met Office's annual report on state of UK climate also says snowy days have become rarer
Experts call for ban on glass skyscrapers to save energy in climate crisis
Air conditioning is used to avoid greenhouse effect but cooling buildings adds to carbon emissions
New Cabinet faces tidal wave of critical green policy decisions
Brexit will inevitably dominate, but Andrea Leadsom, Theresa Villiers, Grant Shapps, and Sajid Javid all face critical policy choices that will shape the green economy for decades to come
Climate crisis blamed as temperature records broken in three nations
New maximums set in Belgium, Germany and Netherlands, as citizens swelter across Europe
Global heating: London to have climate similar to Barcelona by 2050
Nearly 80 per cent of cities to undergo dramatic and potentially disastrous changes, study finds
Net Zero: CCC sets out six urgent priorities for the next PM
CCC chair Lord Deben offers advice on the first things a new Prime Minister should do to plug the UK's widening emissions gap