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The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Redux
The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Redux

The real message from the parable of the boy who cried wolf is that there was a wolf

  • 07 January 2021
Wet winter warning: Labour calls for flood preparedness taskforce
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

  • Risk
  • 16 December 2020
Retiring 'Dad's Army'? Government publishes updated climate adaptation plan
Retiring 'Dad's Army'? Government publishes updated climate adaptation plan

UK becomes one of the first countries to submit Adaptation Communication to the UN

  • Risk
  • 14 December 2020
'Climate change's fingerprints': Report highlights growing link between climate change and weather extremes
'Climate change's fingerprints': Report highlights growing link between climate change and weather extremes

New analysis summarising latest thinking on climate attribution, reveals increasingly clear evidence climate change is leading to increased extreme weather risks

  • Climate change
  • 11 December 2020
Adapting to 4C of global warming
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

  • Risk
  • 14 October 2020
Climate change will cause more landslips, Stonehaven crash report warns
Climate change will cause more landslips, Stonehaven crash report warns

Interim report on fatal crash warns climate impacts on the rail network are "accelerating faster than our assumptions"

  • Risk
  • 14 September 2020
McCain invests £25m in bolstering potato farmers' climate resilience
McCain invests £25m in bolstering potato farmers' climate resilience

Following two of the worst harvests in decades, the new McCain Potato Farmer Pledge campaign aims to help British farmers adapt to increasingly erratic weather

  • Supply chain
  • 12 August 2020
'Build back greener': Environment Agency debuts new five year plan
'Build back greener': Environment Agency debuts new five year plan

EA2025 strategy vows to strengthen UK climate resilience and enhance natural habitats in pursuit of net zero goals, as Flood Re warns flood mitigation efforts must continue to evolve

  • Risk
  • 09 July 2020
Does the UK need a Royal Commission to assess environmental risk?
Does the UK need a Royal Commission to assess environmental risk?

Major new report from IPPR warns the UK is 'acutely vulnerable' to escalating environmental breakdown

  • Climate change
  • 24 June 2020
Reach for the skies
Reach for the skies

The Arctic is sweltering and emissions are climbing again, but the technologies we need to avert catastrophe exist, we just need to deploy them

  • 24 June 2020
Ribena launches hunt for climate resilient blackcurrants
Ribena launches hunt for climate resilient blackcurrants

Company invests over £500,000 to extend partnership focused on the development of climate-resilient blackcurrant varieties

  • Supply chain
  • 04 June 2020
Could a UK heatwave exacerbate the coronavirus crisis?
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'

  • Risk
  • 02 June 2020
Pilot projects seek to tap private sector investment for nature restoration and resilience boost
Pilot projects seek to tap private sector investment for nature restoration and resilience boost

Government-backed Natural Environment Impact Fund to support four projects that will explore how private investment can be harnessed to enhance nature

  • Investment
  • 01 June 2020
'A duty to prepare': National Infrastructure Commission warns UK must bolster resilience efforts
'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

  • Risk
  • 28 May 2020
New guidance to help investors tackle physical climate risks
New guidance to help investors tackle physical climate risks

Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change offers members detailed advice on how to integrate climate risks and opportunities into investment processes

  • Risk
  • 27 May 2020
Study: Worst case climate scenarios point to 'near unlivable' heat for one-third of humans by 2070
Study: Worst case climate scenarios point to 'near unlivable' heat for one-third of humans by 2070

Vast swathes of the Tropics could end up as hot as the Sahara within 50 years unless emissions fall sharply, report warns

  • Climate change
  • 05 May 2020
Resilience post COVID-19
Resilience post COVID-19

Ben Caldecott reflects on how a fixation on short-run cost optimisation has resulted in economic systems and business models that are not sufficiently resilient to shocks

  • Risk
  • 26 March 2020
Climate resilience: Government urged to seize 'excellent opportunity' to deliver ambitious plans
Climate resilience: Government urged to seize 'excellent opportunity' to deliver ambitious plans

Ministers should urgently 'make a clear statement of ambition' on climate and flood resilience, UK climate, infrastructure and insurance experts warn

  • Policy
  • 24 February 2020
Flood risk: 70,000 new homes in England could end up uninsurable, study warns
Flood risk: 70,000 new homes in England could end up uninsurable, study warns

Study of land registry data reveals thousands of new homes have been built in flood prone areas, and could also be denied insurance

  • Risk
  • 21 February 2020
A harder rain's a-gonna fall
A harder rain's a-gonna fall

There have been repeated warnings about the UK's vulnerability to flooding - now the PM must put climate resilience at the centre of his 'levelling-up' agenda

  • Risk
  • 18 February 2020
'Trees are vital': Government dishes out first wave of Urban Tree Challenge funding
'Trees are vital': Government dishes out first wave of Urban Tree Challenge funding

Thirteen projects set to deliver tens of thousands of new trees by 2021 as government looks to deliver on manifesto tree-planting pledges

  • Biodiversity
  • 08 February 2020
Rising seas: Work begins on £40m tidal defence scheme in Great Yarmouth
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

  • Climate change
  • 13 January 2020
Noah's Rainbow - Raising children in an age of climate crisis
Noah's Rainbow - Raising children in an age of climate crisis

On crying at the climate crisis, the start of a decade of consequences, and the stark difference between ghosts and ancestors

  • Climate change
  • 09 January 2020
HSBC: Climate-related health costs could near $10tr by 2050
HSBC: Climate-related health costs could near $10tr by 2050

Climate impacts are set to exacerbate strain that ageing populations are already placing on health systems in 11 key emerging economies, according to a major new report from HSBC

  • Risk
  • 11 November 2019
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