UK
MACC PROJECT: ARCADE (Accelerating Resilience and Climate Adaptation of Domestic Environments for vulnerable populations)
The ‘Accelerating Resilience and Climate Adaptation of Domestic Environments for vulnerable populations’ (ARCADE) project aims to assist decision-makers to protect older heat-vulnerable people in the UK in adapting to climate change within their homes.
‘We Need To Talk About Adaptation!’ Report & SAFER Online Campaign Launch
This online breakfast meeting is for campaigners, community leaders, decision-makers, academics, media and anyone interested in building community resilience.
Co-benefits and tradeoffs of UK climate actions. A systematic Rapid Evidence Assessment and rating of effects on climate adaptation and mitigation outcomes
The aim of this work from the CS-NOW project was to build an understanding of the co-benefits and tradeoffs between climate mitigation and adaptation in the United Kingdom (UK) to inform the Government’s efforts to promote decarbonisation and resilience. Knowledge of co-benefits and trade-offs will aid the Government’s identification of no/low regret actions.
Heatwaves, hospitals and health system resilience in England: a qualitative assessment of frontline perspectives from the hot summer of 2019
This study shows how the 2019 heatwave disrupted hospital care in England, highlighting infrastructure weaknesses, staff awareness gaps, and competing priorities, and calls for stronger adaptation planning and investment to build health system resilience to extreme heat.
UK Hot Weather Health Plan (Society for Acute Medicine)
This document provides practical guidance for UK acute care clinicians to prepare for and manage the health impacts of extreme heat, focusing on protecting vulnerable patients, adapting clinical practice, and maintaining safe hospital environments during heatwaves.
MACC Hub: Flexible Funding: Virtual Sandpit Sessions
Join MACC Hub's Flexible Funding: Sandpit Sessions to explore funding for innovative, action-based climate adaptation projects. Connect with researchers, communities, and organisations to develop collaborative proposals for up to £55,000 in funding. Free virtual events on June 18 & July 8.
CCC: England’s approach to climate adaptation is ‘not working’
Climate Change Committee (CCC)'s latest report states that the current approach to adaptation in England is “not working” and requires “urgent strengthening” across flood defences, heat-wave planning, health services and infrastructure.
Greener Together: How Aberdeenshire Council is pioneering cross-functional green space insights
Aberdeenshire Council, Scotland is using transformative analysis service that applies the increasingly popular 3+30+300 research rule to assess residents’ access and proximity to trees and green spaces.
Advancing nature-based solutions through enhanced soil health monitoring in the United Kingdom
The article discusses the importance of improving soil health monitoring to support nature-based solutions in the UK.
Five insights from the launch of a new initiative to help the UK adapt to climate change
In February 2025, the Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) Hub launched. It is a landmark initiative to devise strategies to help the UK make changes needed to better adapt to the impacts of climate change. The launch event itself sparked discussion about key issues shaping the UK adaptation agenda, and solicited ideas about the priorities that should drive the work ahead. Here, partners in the Hub program offer five takeaways.