UK Climate Resilience Programme

We now have a great deal of evidence that climate variability and change is affecting all sectors of society through both human and natural systems – and the risks will increase as the planet warms due to human-driven emissions of greenhouse gases.

In even the most optimistic scenarios of reduced greenhouse gas emissions we will have to adapt our world to this increased variability through improving our capacity to deal with change and make decisions, despite uncertainty as to what the future climate might be like.

The UKCR Programme is funding interdisciplinary research to help understand how to quantify the risks from climate change and build climate resilience for the UK. It is producing usable outputs to directly support decision-making.