United Kingdom

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A new report, released in May 2024, provides a vital blueprint for local authorities across the United Kingdom grappling with the impacts of climate change.

This Carbon Brief guest post explores whether climate change is making UK droughts worse, examining evidence, key findings, and future water risks.

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.

This CS-NOW project built 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 (i.e. actions with little or no trade-offs for either adaptation or mitigation outcomes).

The Climate Change Committee's 2023 assessment of Scotland's adaptation progress finds good governance and ambition undermined by a significant implementation gap, with actions not happening at the required scale or pace.

See the key findings from the Climate Change Committee's 2025 assessment of England's inadequate climate adaptation progress.

This 2023 CCC report assesses Northern Ireland's climate adaptation progress, highlighting major data gaps, underdeveloped planning, and providing key recommendations for the next adaptation programme.

A project to develop adaptation capability within the NHS was carried out in 2024 by two independent organisations in the UK and three NHS organisations in the north of England. This article provides an overview of the project as a whole and what it hopes to achieve.