Well Adapted UK Report | Wellcome

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]The UK should be preparing [music] for extreme heat, more flooding, and drought. We already know that climate change is [music] impacting people's health. In the summer of 2022, we saw that the health impacts aren't just [music] things like flooding. After some hot summers, we're seeing it's also about heat is the biggest risk to health [music] in this country going forward.

[00:00:20]>> Climate change is already having a huge impact on grassroots sport in the UK.

[00:00:24][music] And the impact for people and in their inability to be able to enjoy the sports that give them [music] purpose and give them joy will have a profound impact on people's physical and mental health.

[00:00:35]>> And we need to prepare for where temperatures of 40° become a lot more normal. The Well-adapted UK report [music] is the Climate Change Committee's independent expert advice to government on how we keep the people and places we love protected from the risks of climate change.