The National Infrastructure Commission and Climate Change Committee have written jointly to government urging ministers to take steps to improve the resilience of key infrastructure services to the effects of climate change.
Building on recent reports by both organisations, the advisory bodies set out five steps to accelerate national adaptation planning to protect key networks:
- Setting clear and measurable goals for resilience, and action plans to deliver them
- Ensuring these standards are developed in time to inform forthcoming regulatory price control periods (which set investment levels for operators)
- Giving explicit duties for resilience to all infrastructure regulators
- Cabinet-level oversight of interdependencies and whole-system resilience
- Embedding resilience in infrastructure planning as we move to an economy more reliant on electricity
The letter was sent to Oliver Dowden MP, Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Thérèse Coffey MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 26 April, 2023.
