To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of any increase in the risk of wildfires attributable to the impacts of climate change.
Answered on
26 June 2023
The Government published its Third Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3) in January 2022. CCRA3 sets out a wide range of climate risks to the UK, including the impacts on the natural environment of the changing climate and extreme events such as wildfires. The Third National Adaptation Programme will be published later this year and will set out the Government’s response to each of these climate risks. In addition, the Environmental Improvement Plan (2023) delivery plan includes measures that build resilience to increasing wildfire threat, recognising the evidence of CCRA3, and outlining several important mitigations and adaptations.