Thread by @ChiefExecCCC

A short thread on the UK NDC – and #adaptation.

We sent this letter to the Government a couple of weeks ago.

theccc.org.uk/publication/le…

The letter contained our NDC recommendation for emissions reduction – 68% by 2030. But take a closer look – there’s a bit more to it.

We *also* made recommendations about #adaptation.

We now have the NDC itself - big tick to @BorisJohnson for accepting our advice on 2030 emissions.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

But what of our adaptation recommendation?

What we got from Government at the weekend was an Adaptation *Communication*, rather than inclusion of #adaptation plans in the NDC itself.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

That distinction matters because inclusion of adaptation plans in the NDC would require new commitments.

Publishing a *communication* on adaptation (which is a very good publication) means that the focus is more on the UK’s procedures and legal framework for adaptation planning.

Mitigation and adaptation are often discussed as two sides of the same coin. Never sure that’s right – clearly they are both related to climate change but they're very different disciplines (with a few overlapping areas).

Nonetheless not all of our recommendations were agreed.

We’ll shift focus with our next major report, the Third Climate Change Risk Assessment.

To get you thinking have a look at these two charts from our Sixth Carbon Budget advice. In any probably future, we will have to adapt to temperature increases and climate changes in the UK.

2021 needs to be the year when the UK’s climate commitments are ‘levelled-up’ to coin a phrase you may have heard, so that adaptation planning and our resilience to climate hazards take greater prominence.

#racetoresilience