Firms neglecting adaptation when working to mitigate climate impacts are in danger of locking-in long-term vulnerability, experts tell Net Zero Festival 2024
The government's National Adaptation Programme for worsening climate impacts should be a wake-up call - yet it seems Ministers are taking a NAP, argues Emma Howard Boyd
Experienced business leader to take up post in September, replacing outgoing chair Emma Howard Boyd
Emma Howard Boyd warns almost £650bn of planned public and private UK infrastructure investment at risk in current decade unless climate impacts are considered in planning
Howard Boyd says 2022 must be 'the year of climate adaptation', warning that 'worryingly few' infrastructure investors consider impacts of climate change
Appointment follows death of GFI's founding chair Sir Roger Gifford earlier this year, and comes alongside appointment of new expert advisory board
Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund provides up to £100,000 to 27 nature-based climate projects across England
The Environment Agency's new strategy will help build up the resilience of millions more homes and businesses to flooding and coastal erosion, according to its chair Emma Howard Boyd
The non-departmental body has shared incident management expertise and loaned a senior staff member to the national effort to combat the coronavirus crisis, confirms chair Emma Howard Boyd
Emma Howard Boyd concedes flood defences 'cannot prevent flooding everywhere, all of the time' and calls instead for more resilient infrastructure