Progress in adapting to climate change 2023 Report to Parliament

Measuring the UK’s preparedness for climate change There are a large range of risks from climate change to the UK, Climate change leads to a wide range of risks and a small number of opportunities and a small number of to the UK. [...] Operator Defra Develop a set of indicators to enable monitoring of the impacts of weather and Telecoms and ICT climate on telecoms and ICT services and the actions being taken to manage them, and designate Ofcom with a statutory remit for climate resilience. [...] Over the lifetime of NAP2, our progress reports in 2019, 2021 and 2023 have found an overall persistent lack of progress in demonstrable reductions in exposure and vulnerability to the UK’s climate change risks and in the delivery of key adaptation actions. [...] It is now essential that the next National Adaptation Programme breaks this cycle of underwhelming policy response and treats adaptation to climate change with the necessary importance and urgency that the impacts of the weather extremes in 2022 and the preceding two decades show that it deserves. [...] Preparing for climate change by helping the global effort 46 25 Chapter 1: Framing and methodology Introduction This report assesses preparation for the effects of climate change as required under the Climate Change Act (2008), and specifically the efforts to adapt to climate change within the National Adaptation Programme.