In 2020 the Environment Agency (EA) published a report entitled the ‘National flood and coastal erosion risk management strategy for England’. Its main purpose was to outline a vision of a nation resilient to future climate impacts, or at least for the remainder of this century.
The last major EA report on this issue was published in 2011, when it tentatively wrote: ‘The climate is changing, and this is likely to have an impact on flooding and coastal erosion.’ Fast forward to 2020, and the tone of the new report is rather different: ‘It is essential that we get ready for the unavoidable impacts of climate change.’ The EA has stated clearly that England (and presumably the rest of the UK) needs to be ‘climate ready’ in order to be resilient to future climate hazards, and to the economic shocks that will follow.
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