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UK Climate Change Risk Assessment
This assessment is called for under the UK’s 2008 Climate Change Act, which requires a report on the risks of climate change to the United Kingdom to be laid before Parliament every five years (section 56), with the first report produced for January 2012.
The 2012 and 2017 evidence reports both went through scientific peer review stages.
The UK’s Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) reviews the climate change risk and opportunities that face the UK arising from climate change and assesses the urgency of action to tackle current and future risks. The assessment takes into account risks to the UK from climate change overseas, changing vulnerability, steps already being taken, and the capacity of communities, business, infrastructure providers and national and local government to act.
The first assessment’s production was coordinated by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the second by the Committee on Climate Change, and involved hundreds of academics and experts. It consists of an evidence report produced independently and a government report, which outlines the views of the UK and devolved governments on climate change risks and opportunities. The CCRA directly informs the development of the UK’s National Adaptation Programme.