United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Addressing climate change and improving girls’ education are essential to reducing poverty and building prosperous, resilient economies and peaceful, stable societies. Often these issues are viewed in isolation, but they are closely linked.

The report summarises the findings of an international events series hosted by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) last year in the run up to the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow.

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) commissioned Frontier Economics and Paul Watkiss Associates to produce an assessment of barriers that are preventing investment in climate change adaptation in the United Kingdom.

This report assesses the social and economic effects of extreme heat through the prism of twelve cities that are already enduring and addressing dramatic impacts of heat waves.

This paper explores how DRF instruments are being framed and understood within the panorama of Loss and Damage policy and finance agendas, highlighting areas of contention and sensitivity.

This paper investigates the effects of a reinsurance scheme which lowers insurance premiums for at-risk properties, leveraging a granular data set of all property transactions and flooding in England.

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the current alerting systems for hot and cold weather used in England to notify the health and social care sector of upcoming extreme weather events.

This work instigates an interdisciplinary cross-country collaboration and knowledge exchange, focused on tools, methods and policies used in the Brazil and the UK.