Government does not take climate threats seriously

The government has made very little progress in the preparation of the UK for increasing threats that represent rising temperatures from coming to power, his climate guard warned.

In a very critical report, the independent climate change committee says that it is progress “or too slow, paused or moved in the wrong direction.”

From hospitals and care homes to food and water supply, this could leave the United Kingdom vulnerable to serious economic and health effects in the decades ahead, CCC warns.

In response, the government pointed out its investment in flood defense, but admitted that more work needed.

Flood Minister Emma Hardy told BBC News to prepare her to change the climate was “something we really committed”.

“We put £ 2.65 billion in the upgrade, maintenance and construction of new flood defenses.

“But we absolutely know, of course, it needs more.”

Encouraged by climate change, the time extreme of the UK is reinforced by, from 40c heat from July 2022 to English the most powerful 18 months in record Between October 2022 to March 2024.

Such events will probably only be stronger and happen more often, because the planet still becomes warmer because of the gases of the planet heating.

Better preparation can limit the damage by making the soil more resistant, but CCC says that this does not happen anywhere near the necessary temp.

“We see that the influence of climate is happening faster and more intense and increases [but] The government does not seem to take him seriously, “she told BBC News Baroness Brown, chairman of the CCC adjustment committee.

“The manifesto said she would address this issue of resistance, and so far, this has not been done,” she added.

“We heard some warm words … but nothing came out yet.”

None of the 46 areas of estimated have been found to achieve “good” progress in adjusting climate change. Only three had “good” plans and politics for the future.

These are mostly unchanged from Last Report of CCC 2023.

Health is one of the areas that remains the sweetest prepared.

CCC indicates a growing number of deaths associated with extreme heat, and the hospitals themselves are vulnerable to hot weather.

Baroness Brown emphasizes the case of Guy’s and St Thomas’, the greatest hospital trust in London, which hit the failure in its data centers during the extreme heat from July 2022.

This meant that he was unable to manage his meeting system at a time of intense demand and had to move to meetings on paper.

“We lost thousands of key meetings for people for critical tests,” she said.

“We try to improve NHS. If we do not consider that it must be resistant to climate, we go back.”

Flood is another challenging area. Plans and policies to ensure that the spots are resistant to river, and coastal floods have worsened from the previous CCC report.

AND Ancient city of Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire is the case. It was flooded in the last four years, recently in November 2024.

Polly Pearce described how her charity store flooded.

“It was so fast … [like] Tsunami, “she said.

“[The water] He came high as if they were on the wall right now … We had all our Christmas things, but we lost it. “

The main street is full of empty shops, and many have allegedly expressed their jobs for the cost of repeated floods.

Trade owners say insurance companies or they will not provide their real estate or that premiums are so high now, many store guards say they just can’t afford it.

And the Environment Agency said he could not afford a flood protection costs of £ 25m.

The government says it is dedicated to helping residents, and that it will work to improve flood resistance on the summer.

CCC notices progress in some other areas of climate adjustment, such as plans to identify the risk for companies and financial institutions.

At the center of this discussion is the issue of costs.

But rejecting the effort to prepare the UK to change the climate in an attempt to save Gotovina would be a “huge mistake” and could increase economic damage in the long run, said Baroness Brown.

“We are very concerned about their consumption review,” she added, at an unusually strong petition of the committee.

“This is not a problem tomorrow; that’s a problem today. If we don’t deal with today, it becomes a disaster tomorrow.”

The request for freedom of information submitted by the BBC found that at the Environmental Department and Rural Questions (Defra) is fully working on a climate adaptation.

This is only 0.3% Defra nearly 6,600 full -time staff.

Defra said that some of these employees also worked on climate adaptation part -time, and the figures do not include those who work in other parts of the government.

Additional reporting Miho Tanaka