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Adapting to climate change: risk assessment worksheets for river basin districts

Climate change risk assessment worksheets for river basin districts, with guidance and a completed example.

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The Environment Agency has removed the requirement to consider climate change adaptation from the permit application process. Instead, you need to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system. Use the industry sector examples for your risk assessment when you do this.”

Applies to England

Documents

Example of a climate change risk assessment

Details

These worksheets were part of completing an adapting to climate change risk assessment for your environmental permit.

To find your river basin district, search for your location in the Catchment Data Explorer. This will tell you the river basin district for that location. If your site is in more than one river basin district, identify which river basin district your site best falls into.

Published 3 October 2019
Last updated 7 October 2021 + show all updates
  1. Added a HTML attachment that explains how to use a risk assessment worksheet for a river basin district.

  2. First published.