The Committee on Climate Change has today launched a call for evidence to identify relevant published information about the risks and opportunities facing the UK from climate change.
The evidence will help to inform the Government’s third UK Climate Change Risk Assessment, due to be published in 2022.
Every five years, the UK Government must carry out an assessment of current and future risks to the country from climate change. To inform the 2022 risk assessment, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has asked the Committee on Climate Change to prepare an independent ‘Evidence Report’ by 2021.
The Committee published a similar evidence report in 2016, which went on to inform the UK Government’s second Climate Change Risk Assessment in 2017.
A consortium led by the University of Exeter has been contracted by the CCC to prepare the analysis and draft the technical chapters for Evidence Report for the third UK Climate Change Risk Assessment.
The technical chapters for the CCRA3 Evidence Report are being written by a team of experts led by the University of Exeter in partnership with the Met Office.
The team are inviting evidence to inform their analysis in a number of topic areas, including:
- Probability and magnitude of extreme weather events in the current climate, including historically unprecedented events.
- Projected changes in extreme events in the future, on timescales from the next few years to the end of the 21st Century and beyond
- Risk Assessment methodologies.
The team will also examine the climate change risks and opportunities within the UK, and related adaptation (both current and potential) under the following categories:
- Natural environment and natural assets
- Infrastructure
- People and the built environment
- Business and industry
- Risks to the UK due to climate change impacts elsewhere in the world, and current and potential adaptation to address these.
The closing date for submissions is Friday 10th May – click here to access the Call for Evidence homepage
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