Climate Ready Edinburgh -Edinburgh’s Adaptation Plan

The Adaptation and Nature partnership has prepared the city’s second climate adaptation plan called Climate Ready Edinburgh. The plan provides a roadmap for public and private organisations, businesses, communities and individuals to work together to build a resilient and flourishing capital city.

Climate change is already affecting Edinburgh and our climate is projected to change further, despite our existing efforts to reduce carbon emissions. We are likely to see increasing extreme weather, heavier winter rainfall and reduced summer rainfall, higher average temperatures, with more frequent and extreme heatwaves, sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increased likelihood of flooding.

The plan explains why we need to adapt our city to the impacts of climate change including the most up-to-date projections of how Edinburgh’s climate is likely to change in the future, the impacts of this and the implications this has for the city. It then sets out what we are already doing and planning to do to adapt the city through identifying the areas we need to prioritise and the actions we need to take. The City of Edinburgh Council has recently released a short animation highlighting some of the key climate change impacts we will face in Edinburgh and some of the small actions that residents, communities, businesses and the Council itself can take.

To read more about the adaptation plan, click here.