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 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.

This article provides an introduction to writing a climate change adaptation plan and reporting on adaptation in the NHS as context for two documents that can be found in the resource section: a downloadable Adaptation Plan Template, and a guide for including adaptation in your Green Plan and other regulatory guidance related to adaptation in the NHS.