Policy paper

Climate change adaptation: policy information

What the government is doing to prepare the UK for the impacts of climate change.

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Preparing for a changing climate, or climate adaptation, will help the UK to reduce negative consequences of climate change and take advantage of new opportunities.

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Published 21 June 2021
Last updated 11 August 2022 + show all updates
  1. Updated section 2.3 'Adapting essential services and infrastructure: Adaptation Reporting Power' to include a link to the third round of reports and an evaluation of the report itself.

  2. First published.

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