doing @instituteforgov #netzero project, colleagues we spoke to are much more familiar with climate change mitigation, emissions targets, than "adaptation" - the rail crash in Scotland shows why this matters.
We've known for a long time that a likely impact of climate change will be more heatwaves and more intense rainfall.. #adaptation means getting ready for both - as part of a wider drive on resilience.
last year's assessment on adaptation by @theCCCuk (yes, they look at adaptation too) was damning.. things had gone backwards over the past 10 years - verdict on UK govt theccc.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
their assessment suggested Scotland doing better theccc.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
But the key message is that failure to adapt has consequences now... and setting an ambitious net zero target is not a get out of jail card...
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