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:
Climate change poses one of the greatest risks to future food production both in the UK and globally. Around 72% (17.5 million hectares) of the UK land area is farmed, with 37% of this as productive arable land. In 2017,...
Funded by: SPF
Lead research organisation: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
The project focuses on monitoring and predicting the effects of climate change on crop yields, which is directly related to the question about the impact of agriculture on surrounding habitats and communities.
Farming produces food but can deliver both benefits and dis-benefits for the environment, including impacts on biodiversity, water and air quality. Both agricultural production and associated impacts on the environment f...
Funded by: BBSRC
Lead research organisation: Rothamsted Research
The project addresses the impact of climate change on agriculture and proposes strategies for resilience, but does not fully cover the effects on surrounding habitats and communities.
The Climate-CAFE project focuses on increasing the "adaptive capacity" of arable and forage crops to climate change (CC). We will use an interdisciplinary approach to evaluate traditional and more novel regiona...
Funded by: BBSRC
Lead research organisation: Scotland's Rural College
The project focuses on increasing the adaptive capacity of arable and forage crops to climate change, which is partially relevant to the question about the impact of agriculture on surrounding habitats and communities. However, it does not directly address water availability, flooding, land use change, or chemical harm on ecosystem functions.