UK climate change: National assessment predicts more flooding
The new report recognises how the trend towards warmer winters, hotter summers and changing rainfall patterns is affecting communities across the UK and sets out the government’s ongoing investment and work to tackle these risks.
Introducing the assessment, Defra Minister Lord Gardiner said:
“Our changing climate is one of the most serious environmental challenges that we face as a nation and that is why we are taking action; from improving flood defences across the country to securing our critical food and water supplies.
Commenting on flooding and coastal change risks, the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 Evidence Report presents compelling evidence that climate change may lead to increases in heavy rainfall and significantly increased risks from fluvial and surface flooding by mid-century which could cause troubles for the agriculture industry in the long term.
The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 continues the government’s ongoing commitment to ensuring the country can adapt to a changing climate, and will be followed by the second National Adaptation Programme setting out how the government will be addressing these risks.
source: waterbriefing.org
