Guidance and regulation

When and how local planning authorities, developers and their agents should use climate change allowances in flood risk assessments.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 27 May 2022

How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 3 April 2023

Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 3 April 2023

Use the climate change risk assessment examples for your industry sector when developing or reviewing your management system.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 17 May 2023

Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Updated: 20 June 2023

The Department for Education's (DfE) sustainability leadership and climate action plans initiative.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 15 September 2023

A research programme to help the UK adapt and become more resilient to the impacts of climate change.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Updated: 8 February 2024

Introducing 3 innovative programmes to improve resilience to flooding and coastal change.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 16 May 2023

Information on peak river flow allowances for flood risk assessments, and flood and coastal risk projects, schemes and strategies.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 28 February 2022

How the Ministry of Justice is embedding sustainability throughout our estate and operations.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 25 September 2023

A document to help Environment Agency staff identify and communicate climate impacts and risks relevant to our work.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 31 October 2023

How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 4 November 2022

How the Department for Education (DfE) will approach monitoring and evaluation of the initiatives in the sustainability and climate change strategy.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 30 January 2024

This page is intended to help UK exporters of goods in scope of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to identify relevant EU guidance and information.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Updated: 17 January 2024

How to work out the impact of air emissions on global warming if you're applying for a bespoke environmental permit.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 1 February 2016

International Climate Finance (ICF) results and indicator methodologies.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Updated: 28 September 2023

This guide aims to help trustees evaluate the way in which climate-related risks and opportunities may affect their strategies.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 23 September 2022

This treaty was presented to Parliament in October 2016.

• From: Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Updated: 7 October 2016

The British Embassy Kinshasa is inviting proposals for start-up projects aimed at protecting the environment and combatting climate change in DRC in 2019/20.

• From: Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Updated: 26 September 2019

This booklet is an introduction to UK climate services provided by public sector organisations.

• From: Closed organisation: Department of Energy & Climate Change and 1 others
• Updated: 25 July 2015