Climate Resilience Roadmap - published today
Today's Guardian has a report on the launch of a new report on the UK's Climate Resilience (or lack of). It outlines the likely increase in days which will be over 28 degrees within the next decade. This will cause real problems for schools, care homes and people's homes in general, which have not been built with these temperatures in mind. There needs to be some rapid adaptation to buildings and behaviours. The report sets out a Climate Resilience Roadmap. It can be downloaded from here as a 70 page PDF, which has a huge amount of information and advice. Five key threats are examined by the roadmap: overheating, wildfires, flooding, drought and storms. The modelling says modern buildings are more vulnerable to overheating than older ones because they have larger areas of glass and are of a more lightweight construction. Adaptation measures for buildings could include the use of solar shading and replacing regular glass with solar glass. So-called passive adaptation is reco...
