LONDON: Britain is unprepared for the worsening impacts of local weather change resembling flooding and excessive warmth, the nation’s impartial local weather advisers stated on Wednesday (Apr 30).
Britain was battered by widespread flooding final 12 months which induced journey disruption and harm to houses, and lately it has suffered heatwaves, droughts and wildfires.
“We now have seen within the final couple of years that the nation isn’t ready for the impacts of local weather change. We all know there’s worse to return, and we’re not prepared – certainly in lots of areas we’re not even planning to be prepared,” stated Julia King, chair of the Local weather Change Committee’s (CCC) Adaptation Committee.
In January, scientists stated that 2024 was globally the hottest year on record, with local weather change pushing the planet’s temperature to ranges by no means beforehand skilled by fashionable people and making excessive climate occasions extra frequent and extreme.
In response to the report, the federal government stated it was taking sturdy motion to organize for local weather change impacts.
“We’re investing a report 2.65 billion kilos (US$3.54 billion) to restore and construct flood defences, defending tens of 1000’s of houses and companies and serving to native communities grow to be extra resilient,” a authorities spokesperson stated.
