Natural England’s climate change risk assessment and adaptation plan (2021) (NE761)

This is the third adaptation report Natural England has produced to report under the Adaptation Reporting Power (ARP) of the Climate Change Act 2008. The ARP requires organisations to outline how they are preparing and adapting to the current and predicted risks posed by climate change. The report comprises an overarching risk assessment of climate change to Natural England’s aims and objectives. Depending on future emission pathways we expect to see moderate to major impacts on our aims and objectives in the medium to long term. An outline of adaptation plans is provided for work areas across our six corporate programmes over the next five years. The report also outlines a number of themes in developing our organisational response to the biodiversity and climate crises in an integrated way.