Climate Change Risk
(UK) The UK’s first Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) project, funded by Defra and the Devolved Governments, has won the Climate Week Award for ‘Best Initiative by a Government or Statutory Body’.
At the awards ceremony at Lancaster House in London last month, Dominic Rowland (Defra), Ian Townend and Helen Udale-Clarke (HR Wallingford) and Paula Orr (Collingwood Environmental Planning) accepted the award on behalf of the client and the consortium team, led by HR Wallingford.
The CCRA was laid before Parliament in January 2012. It is an independent report that presents, for the first time, a comparison of a wide range of climate change risks based on their economic, social and environmental implications.
Over the past two and half years the consortium has delivered an innovative method that uses the research and data available to compare risks across sectors on a consistent basis. It not only provides one of the broadest national assessments ever completed but also a solid foundation for future cycles of the CCRA.
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