UK Climate Resilience Programme
The UK Climate Resilience Programme (UKCR) ran from 2019 to 2023. It brought together multi-disciplinary climate research and expertise to ensure the UK is resilient to climate variability and change.
The programme was led by the Met Office and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), in partnership with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), and the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) Adaptation Sub-Committee.
It aimed to answer key questions:
- How do we make our cities and regions resilient to climate change?
- What are the opportunities to manage our adaptation to a low carbon future so it can deliver improvements to society and economic growth?
In answering these questions, the programme developed robust approaches, such as software tools, to improve near-term climate forecasts and quantify current and future risk. It conducted fundamental research to effectively manage adaptation of low carbon approaches, promoted behaviour changes, and created novel co-production processes and industry quality standards which could deliver environmental benefits.
Read the joint UKRI & Met Office Science Plan for the UKCR Programme (published July 2019)