FCERM Strategy - Protection and Funding

Overview

This page summarises the scope we gave this working group when it began meeting in June 2018. You will find the summary documents from this working group at the bottom of this page.

What do we all want to protect and how can we collectively fund it?

This group considered the challenge of protecting – and funding – the nations’ resilience as climate change increases the risk we face. In considering protection it is not just looking at building further defences, but rather at the balance between adaptation, reducing the risk of flooding through building more schemes (including those that work with natural processes) and reducing the risk of flooding by helping homeowners and businesses to prepare.

Initial questions considered

• Do we ‘maintain’ current protection as climate change increases risk, ‘improve’ or make a different choice?
• What level of climate risk should we account for?
• How can we adapt for the risk we can’t protect against?
• What level of protection will communities and businesses have? Will / should it be the same everywhere?
• Will certain groups (households for example) continue to be considered a greater priority?
• How will Shoreline Management Plans be used to manage or adapt to coastal erosion?
• How we will this be funded?
• What will expectations be with respect to resilience in the face of climate change?
• Will our current incident response model be able to manage this?