The climate is changing: time to get ready
Launch of the Environment Agency's first national report on climate change
Spring 2005 saw the launch of our first national report on climate change. The report shows how the environment and quality of life in England and Wales will be affected by climate change. It highlights the need to adapt now to minimise the impacts.
Our climate is changing. This has consequences for many aspects of our lives, including: water supply, the natural environment, health, business and industry, agriculture, tourism and transport. Already in the first years of this century, floods, storms and droughts have shown how vulnerable the UK is to the weather. It is time to accept climate change and get ready for those impacts that are unavoidable, while also trying to limit the extent of future change.
When it comes to climate change we are a key operational player at a national, regional and local level. Our National Environmental Reporting Programme has published a report entitled 'the climate is changing: time to get ready'. It draws on our on-the-ground experience and uses real-life examples to illustrate conditions that will become more frequent and more extreme in the future. For example, it uses the recent flooding incidents in Boscastle and Carlisle; the sewage overflow into the Thames last August; and the impacts of the 2003 summer on mortality rates, water supplies and air quality.
In this report you can find out more about the cause, the costs and the impacts of climate change. Learn how we are helping to limit and adapt to climate change through embedding it into all our activities. The report also supports the Government's efforts to provide international leadership on climate change during the UK presidencies of the European Union and G8.
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The climate is changing: time to get ready (2005) (Acrobat, 997KB, 8 minutes)
Latest Environment Agency report on climate change impacts in England and Wales. - Climate Change is happening (Flash, 503KB, max 3.5 mins)
