The following country profile is found in the Meister Consultants Group study: Floating Houses and Mosquito Nets: Emerging Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Around the World.
Summary
Great Britain is at the vanguard of climate change adaptation. The country
follows a coordinated approach that covers almost all policy areas
and involves all key actors, ranging from the Ministry of Environment to
the Ministry of Defense. The strategy focuses on integrating adaptation
policy into the general political process. For instance, adaptation figures
into the government investment process and in the evaluation of municipalities.
An important success factor for the British adaptation strategy
was the early establishment of an information and coordination center
that brings together academia and policy-makers. As a result, municipalities
are provided with analysis and assessment tools that help them
estimate the risk of climate change and plan the appropriate adaptation
measures. Great Britain is more active than many other countries in
communicating the need to adapt to climate change. The consequences
of climate change in the Great Britain include the risk of flooding, as well
as erosion along the coastline and in river basins (p. 33).
