Climate Change Committee Report Launch, How can the UK Adapt to Climate Risks?

The impacts of climate change are seriously undermining the UK’s prosperity and security. Not only are these being felt right now, but it has become inevitable that more extreme impacts will be felt in the very near future.

The UK was not designed for the current climate, let alone the future one. By 2050, summers in this country could feel like those of North Africa, with extreme dryness and heat causing ever-increasing water shortages and drought. Massively swollen river flows will make dangerous – often fatal – flash flooding a regularity. More frequent and violent storms will degrade our coastlines and threaten coastal communities. The cumulative effect of these outcomes will likely severely undermine the UK’s zero-carbon energy aspirations, unless adaptation and mitigation are more closely linked.

The UK government has a legal obligation to assess climate risks every five years, and the CCC has a statutory requirement to give independent advice to the government on those risks. For the first time, the Committee is now providing potential solutions to address them, setting out the climate risks, actions and enablers across 14 key and often overlapping systems in our society, including health, land, energy, and the economy. This landmark report will be published on 20 May and will set out the recommendations for immediate action.

Join us at 4 pm on 1^st June at Saïd Business School for the Oxford launch of the Climate Change Committee’s Well Adapted UK report. Dr Richard Millar, Head of Adaptation at the Climate Change Committee (CCC) will be in conversation with Profs Sam Fankhauser and Radhika Khosla.

This event has been organised in partnership with the Oxford Smith School and the ZERO Institute. is delighted to be hosting the Oxford launch of the Climate Change Committee’s Well Adapted UK report.

Speakers  

• Professor Sam Fankhauser, Interim Director & Professor of Climate Change Economics, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
• Richard Millar, Director, Adaptation at the Climate Change Committee 
• Dr Radhika Khosla, Associate Professor at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford