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<p>The Climate Change Act 2008 requires Government to identify, every five years,
the risks from a changing climate, including from extreme weather, and to put in place
programmes to address them.</p><p>The first Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA)
was published in 2012 and identified over 100 risks to the UK, up to the 2100s. Work
is well underway on the second CCRA, which will be published in January 2017. The
first National Adaptation Programme, which laid out how risks identified in the CCRA
are being addressed, was published in 2013, and the second will be produced around
2018.</p><p>In the biennial National Risk Assessment (NRA), the Government assesses
the most significant hazards and threats that could affect the UK over the next five
years. It considers natural events such as extreme weather and their resulting impacts
(for example, flooding, severe storms and gales, low temperatures and heavy snow,
heatwaves, drought). The NRA informs the National Resilience Planning Assumptions
which support response and recovery planning at both local and national levels.</p><p>The
Government also works with the owners and operators of the UK’s most critical infrastructure
to produce annual Sector Resilience Plans (SRPs), which set out the resilience of
the UK’s most important infrastructure to the relevant risks identified in the NRA.
Plans identify potential vulnerabilities and set out a programme of measures to improve
resilience where necessary.</p><br />
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