Early Engagement Notice - Assessment of climate risks to UK cold-supply chains

Description

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) is an independent, statutory body established under the Climate Change Act 2008. Our purpose is to advise the UK and devolved governments on emissions targets and to report to Parliament on progress made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for and adapting to the impacts of climate change. Part of the CCC's role is to undertake an assessment of the risks and opportunities from climate change facing the UK now and, in the future, through the Climate Change Risk Assessment. We have begun work to inform the Fourth Climate Change Risk Assessment for the UK, and as part of this we would like to explore in detail how climate change might impact some of the UK's critical systems. One of the systems we would like to explore in depth is the UK's cold-supply chains which are integral to supplying and exporting essential products including perishable food products and critical medicines/pharmaceutical products. - The cold chain enables pharmaceutical trade (e.g. in vaccines, medicines and therapies) worth around £50bn a year to the UK economy (UK's fifth largest import sector and fourth largest export sector last year). - Also enables arou…

Official publications

• Scoping study to assess the resilience of the UK's cold supply chain to rising and extreme temperatures
  Published: 8 May 2024
• BE23235 - Climate Change Risk Assessment 4 Technical Report
  Published: 7 May 2024
• Developing spatial indicators of vulnerability to the impacts of climate change in the UK.
  Published: 12 March 2024
• Early engagement notice - Risks to health and the health service due to extreme heat
  Published: 18 January 2024
• Residential Buildings Assumptions
  Published: 18 January 2024
• Updating wastewater treatment pathways for the Seventh Carbon Budget
  Published: 17 January 2024
• Early engagement notice - Heat risks to the urban environment and health
  Published: 17 January 2024
• Early engagement notice - Interventions for building economy-wide water resilience
  Published: 10 January 2024
• Updating wastewater treatment pathways for the Seventh Carbon Budget
  Published: 10 January 2024
• Climate Change Risk Assessment 4 - Technical Report
  Published: 7 December 2023

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