Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum, Netherwood Sustainable Futures and the Pembrokeshire Public Services Board are working to co-ordinate the development of a strategy with businesses, local authorities and community groups.
There is plenty of work already being done in Wales on climate mitigation and decarbonisation which aims to reduce, prevent and limit the rate of carbon dioxide emissions which contribute to climate change.
This project to develop a Climate Adaptation Strategy is one of the first for Wales, and will focus on:
- Climate risks: multiple risks that are likely to arise from changes to our climate, which may impact on the local economy, natural environment, infrastructure, communities and people’s well-being.
- Climate adaptation: helping to minimise climate change risks that we are locked into due to past greenhouse gas emissions, including unpredictable severe weather, sea level rise, and changes in natural systems that we rely on.
- Climate resilience: ensuring that Pembrokeshire can deal with the risks in the future.
To develop the Strategy, we are running a series of workshops and sector-specific events to take a deeper look at specific climate risks across industry, business, communities, agriculture and the environment.
We used the most recent Climate Change Risk Assessment for Wales and local knowledge captured from the workshops to develop a set of 39 climate adaptation priorities, with details of the risks that need to be addressed in Pembrokeshire in coming decades. We have begun to categorise these priorities into those that need to be dealt with immediately, those for action in the next 18 months and others that need to be addressed over the next five years as part of the Climate Adaptation Strategy. The final Strategy document will be published in June 2022.
To find out more about the project or if you’d like to be involved, please contact Tim Brew: tim.brew@pembrokeshirecoastalforum.org.uk.
The project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Community Renewal Fund.