Adaptation
Providing practical adaptation advice to both government departments and commercial customers.
It is critical that mitigation and adaptation policy are underpinned by strong scientific evidence. The Met Office carries out original underpinning research on aspects of dangerous climate change, including Amazon dieback, the cryosphere, and marine impacts. Our primary focus is to provide relevant evidence to our stakeholders, and to do this we make use of a variety of tools including global climate models, simple climate models, and pattern scaling.
We also integrate a wide range of relevant research from across climate science, climate impacts, economics, social science and ecology, through our collaborations with other centres of expertise.
Due to the amount of CO2 that has already been emitted into the atmosphere, it is becoming increasingly apparent that we are committed to a degree of climate change. Therefore, mitigation cannot be the only focus when considering climate change; mitigation must be considered alongside adaptation measures. We work with customers to identify how their assets and businesses are sensitive to weather now, with a view to assessing how they may be impacted by future climate change.
Key aims
- To undertake core research for understanding dangerous climate change and its implications.
- To investigate what emissions pathways might avoid undesirable climate outcomes.
- To provide advice on whether proposed mitigation options are technically and economically feasible.
- To work with a wide variety of customers to identify their weather and climate sensitivities.
- To provide the most up-to-date and robust climate research on mitigation and adaptation advice.
- To carry out risk assessments of baseline and future climate risks.
