Task Group ends on 18 Oct, 2023

Task group members for the Climate Resilience Roadmap

Learn more about our Climate Resilience Roadmap, how you can be involved and how to apply.

Climate Change Adaptation Resilience Roadmap Task Group

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This is a critical time for climate action. In the most recent assessment of risks the UK faces from climate related hazards, over 60% were given the highest urgency score, a staggering increase in urgency compared to the previous assessment. Destructive climate impacts and extreme weather changes will affect all members of our society, devastate lives and livelihoods, and have a detrimental impact on the buildings, infrastructure and environments that keep us secure from hazards such as flooding and overheating. However, as noted in the Climate Change Committee’s Investment for a well-adapted UK report, the UK currently lacks associated targets or goals for resilience standards at a national, local or sectoral level.

Following on from UKGBC’s previous work around climate resilience and adaptation, we aim to work with the built environment industry to co-create a sector roadmap for climate resilience in the built environment. By developing science-driven, industry-wide targets to be achieved in the short, medium and longer term, this project could help to fill the urgent and critical gap identified by the CCC – investing in and optimising our built environment for a climate resilient future. This project will follow a similar path of UKGBC’s Whole Life Carbon Roadmap project which provided both the industry and government a common vision and agreed actions for achieving net zero carbon in the built environment.

The project aims to:

Define a climate resilient UK built environment;
Set science-based targets and measurable metrics for climate resilience;
Measure the baseline climate resilience of the UK built environment;
Identify the social, economic, political and technical obstacles of climate adaptation;
Identify the key actions for built environment stakeholders to ramp up adaptation action; and
Identify key resilience and adaptation policies for national and local governments.

Task Group Purpose

The Task Group will contribute significantly to the project’s core content. They will ensure that the guidance builds on existing industry knowledge and initiatives and that the output is of a quality and form that is practicable to the intended industry professionals. We will therefore be seeking a level of knowledge and understanding of existing / emerging related industry initiatives and policies within the Task Groups, for Climate Resilience Roadmap for the UK Built Environment example, TCFD recommendations, the CCC’s third Climate Change Risk Assessment, the third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3).

By becoming a Task Group, your organisation will:

be credited with facilitating progress of the project, and positive impact in the built environment
take an assisting role in helping to shape the project and associated outputs, as well as how those
outputs are conveyed to industry to maximise impact and uptake
receive brand recognition on final project-related outputs
receive bespoke social media assets to help promote your organisation’s support of the project
be able to collaborate with other industry leaders and build your organisation’s network.

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UK Climate Resilience Roadmap

As climate change impacts continue to occur, the built environment must prepare for hazards such as heatwaves, floods, and storms whilst cutting carbon emissions. To start, we first need to understand how to measure our resilience, establish industry-wide targets and pinpoint essential actions and policies to achieve them.