Social vulnerability
MACC Hub Webinar Series #5: Financing Fairness: Unlocking Climate Adaptation for Vulnerable Communities
Climate adaptation is urgent and requires funding: but who receives it, and who is left out? And what are the sources and instruments of adaptation finance? This session will explore whether current adaptation funding and finance truly prioritise equity, and how they might be reimagined to better support those most vulnerable to climate risks.
MACC Hub Annual Conference 2025: highlights, insights and next steps
On September 25, we reached an exciting milestone: the first-ever MACC Hub Conference, hosted by Verture, part of the Hub's Scotland Spoke. Over 200 people from across research, policy, and practice came together to share ideas, spark collaboration and turn climate adaptation from theory into real, practical action. Here’s a look back at the day: the highlights, the insights and where we’re heading next.
Scaling Climate Adaptation: Lessons and Insights from Practice
This webinar will explore what "scalability" means in practice, and how Adaptation Fund projects are contributing to scaling outcomes, both directly and indirectly.
Prepared and overheating: 2022 heatwaves exposed a nation at risk
The report, "Turning up the heat," published in February 2024, draws on firsthand accounts from 38 frontline decision-makers and responders. Their collective testimony paints a grim picture of a nation whose policies, infrastructure, and public awareness are failing to keep pace with a rapidly warming climate.
Regional Community Resilience Group Pilots
This case study focuses on pilot projects which worked with communities to address a broad range of risks and resilience...
Inequality in a Future Wales: Areas for action in work, climate and demographic change
The research analyses the impact of changes to the world of work, climate and demographic change on existing inequality.
MACC Hub Webinar Series #3: Visions for a well-adapted UK
Watch the MACC Hub conversation as we explore the urgent need for a shared vision of climate adaptation in the UK. Speakers from across the four nations offer short reflections to spark discussion, challenge assumptions and explore how we can shape a more inclusive and resilient future together.
Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change Hub: Policy Response Unit call for applications
The Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change Hub is advertising for a short-term research contract as part of its Policy Response Unit, that aims to provide the evidence the UK government requires to advance adaptation policy.
Belfast Climate Pack
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Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) Hub Annual Conference
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:00 - 16:00 BST Join us for a free one-day event to learn about adaptation best practice, and inform the work of the MACC Hub in Scotland and across the UK.