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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Holding the increase in the global average temperature to below 2 degree C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degree has been agreed by the representatives of the 19...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE
The project explores the impact of rising sea level on coastal systems and provides sea level projections with specific warmings of 1.5 and 2 degree C, which directly addresses the question.
Mean sea level around the UK has risen by approximately 1.5 mm per year on average from the start of the 20th century. This rate has increased to levels exceeding 3 mm per year for the period 1993-2019. The projections o...
Funded by: UKRI
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh
The project discusses the impact of rising sea levels on coastal infrastructure and explores adaptation strategies, but does not fully address the impact on natural and human systems or how natural systems can mitigate coastal degradation.
Sea level change is one of the most widely known and potentially serious consequences of climate change due to emissions of greenhouse gases. It concerns both the public and policymakers, because of its adverse impact on...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: University of Reading
The project aims to reduce the range of sea level rise projections and address uncertainties, which partially answers the question. However, it does not provide specific sea level projections with warmings of 1.5 and 2 degree C.