Adaptation and resilience: Defra is the lead government department for climate adaptation, responsible for the assessment of appropriate action to protect and enhance natural and human systems in a changing climate. Also, for increasing resilience and mitigating against risk. Such assessment is used in many areas, including for the statutory requirement of the Climate Change Act to produce a 5-yearly, “Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) and National Adaptation Programme (NAP)”.
Although Defra has overarching responsibility for producing the CCRA and is responsible for managing several climate risks (such as impact on the natural environment), a number of climate risks (such as the impact on transport, health, business) are the responsibility of other government departments (for example Department for Transport (DfT), Department for Health (DfH), Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Worldwide freshwater resources are under increasing pressures of rapidly intensifying climate change effects putting the availability and quality of water resources and socio-economic developments at risk. River basin or...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY
The project is relevant as it aims to understand climate change impacts on water resources and develop models for sustainable management, which partially addresses the question about the impact of changing freshwater budgets.
Global warming, associated with the burning of fossil fuels, is changing the world's climate, and with this, it is altering the water cycle. Future climate projections suggest hydrological extremes (floods and droughts) ...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
The project focuses on understanding and quantifying the impact of changing freshwater budgets on river flow, water availability, and the risk of flooding, which directly addresses the question.
A reliable water supply is usually taken for granted in the UK. However, there is increasing pressure on water supplies. By 2050, anthropogenic climate change and increasing water demand from a growing population is proj...
Funded by: FLF
Lead research organisation: University of Bristol
The project addresses the impact of changes in water supply and water demand on river flows, which partially answers the question. However, it does not specifically mention the impact on water availability, the risk of flooding, and natural systems.