Posts about reducing and managing the impacts of climate change
“Prepare. Act. Survive.” Those are the simple but stark words behind the campaign we’ve launched this week to help keep people safe from flooding. Over 5 million properties across the country are at risk of flooding – that’s more than …
Chair of the Environment Agency, Emma Howard Boyd’s speech to the Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum on Tuesday, 13th February 2018 - Thank you very much for inviting me to speak today. Because the theme of this …
Marsh and mud have often received a bad press. In centuries past, coastal mudflats and marshes were thought of as derelict, even dangerous, places – scenes of criminal escapes and smuggled cargos landed. But over the last few decades, we …
Helping to protect the country from flooding is key to my role and, indeed, that of the Environment Agency. Over the years, many communities have seen flood defences built, maintained and operated in ways that reduce the risk of flooding. …
The Governor of the Bank of England has highlighted that one obstacle to a smooth adjustment to a low carbon future has been the absence of information to help make a market in climate-related financial risk. As he has observed, …
As I begin my tenure as Chair of the Environment Agency it is now, more than ever, that we need a bold new vision for the environment. Over the last 40 years EU legislation has helped shape and promote improvements …
Someone once told me that tourists come to Britain for the food, but they stay for the weather. We may joke about our bad weather sometimes but it is no laughing matter for anyone experiencing our weather at its most …
I am a senior advisor with the Environment Agency working on climate change. I have spent my whole career looking after the environment in the South East of England and have seen many changes, including the start of the Environment …
The Met Office and Environment Agency are always striving to improve forecasts and warnings and to empower people to make good decisions that protect lives, property and infrastructure. This is particularly important during flooding and other severe weather. It’s now …
Flooding can occur from many different sources. We saw this in winter 2013-2014 when the storm surge caused flooding on the east coast, there was widespread river flooding across many counties, chalk springs started to flow leading to groundwater flooding …
