Living better with a changing climate

This is the Environment Agency’s third adaptation report under the Climate Change Act. It sets out how the impacts of climate change affect our work and how we are preparing for those impacts. The report is primarily about how the Environment Agency will adapt our own work and partnership work in the face of climate change, but it also has wider messages for national adaptation and the part that we play in enabling the country to make a resilient transition to net zero.

Ther key messages are that:

• Significant climate impacts are inevitable especially for flood and coastal risks, water management, freshwater wildlife and industrial regulation
• The Environment Agency is preparing for climate impacts by working with government, businesses and communities
• We can successfully tackle the climate emergency if we do the right things. Early action counts