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<p>Defra spent £8.3 million in 2013-14 under its core adapting to climate change programme.
This included £1.6 million to the Environment Agency’s Climate Ready Support Service
(CRSS) to help organisations across England adapt to a changing climate, through targeted
engagement with key sectors and their representative bodies. Adaptation is mainstreamed
across Government, and other Defra programmes also communicate climate change and
impacts to their respective partners and sectors. Defra also participates in a DECC-led
cross-Government communications group promoting unified and consistent messaging on
climate change.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra continues to help build the nation’s
resilience to a changing climate primarily through the implementation of the first
National Adaptation Programme report published last July, the implementation of our
Strategy for the second round of the Adaptation Reporting Power and improving our
understanding of climate risk through the second Climate Change Risk Assessment due
in 2017.</p><p> </p>
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