On 30 April 2025, the UK Climate Change Committee (CCC) published its biennial report on the UK’s progress in adapting to climate change. The report delivers a stark warning that the country remains inadequately prepared for escalating climate risks. Despite the increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as floods, heatwaves, and droughts, the CCC […]
On 30 April 2025, the UK Climate Change Committee (CCC) published its biennial report on the UK’s progress in adapting to climate change. The report delivers a stark warning that the country remains inadequately prepared for escalating climate risks. Despite the increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as floods, heatwaves, and droughts, the CCC found that the vast majority of adaptation outcomes have made little to no progress since 2023, with none of the 46 assessed outcomes rated as achieving ‘good’ progress.
Belinda Gordon, Director of Policy & Public Affairs, Landscape Institute, said:
“The Landscape Institute shares the Climate Change Committee’s deep concern regarding the UK’s lack of preparedness for climate impacts. A landscape-led approach to development provides an integrated, place-based solution across the CCC’s key outcome areas of land, infrastructure, built environment, health and the economy. By embedding nature-based solutions, green and blue infrastructure, enhancing biodiversity, and designing for climate resilience, landscape professionals deliver long-term value across each of these outcomes. Landscape not only mitigates risk, but helps to strengthen economic and social resilience and sequester carbon. It must be recognised as critical infrastructure for successful climate adaptation.”
In the coming weeks, the Landscape Institute will be publishing a briefing that sets out what a landscape-led approach to development is and how it delivers value for people, place and nature.
It would be great if the Landscape Institute would support our Parliamentary Petition to ban windfarms on protected peatland in England. We are seeking an amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill to incorporate this as we believe it is entirely counterproductive to the government’s net zero goals to construct windfarms on healthy blanket bog that stores 4x as much carbon as tropical rainforest. Here’s the link to our petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701290