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Minister questioned on Climate Change Adaptation

14 March 2017

The Environmental Audit Committee holds a one off session on climate change adaptation in light of the recent publication of the Government's Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017. This assessment draws primarily on the independent Evidence Report commissioned from the CCC's Adaptation Sub-Committee.

Witnesses

Tuesday 14 March, Committee room 5, Palace of Westminster

At 10.15am

  • Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FREng, Julia King, Chair, Committee on Climate Change's Adaptation Sub-Committee
  • Matthew Bell, Chief Executive of Committee on Climate Change
  • Daniel Johns, Head of Adaptation, Committee on Climate Change

At 11.10am

  • Lord Gardiner of Kimble, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Rural Affairs and Biosecurity, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
  • Dornford Rugg, Head of the Climate Adaptation Team
  • Molly Anderson, Head of the Climate Adaptation Evidence and Analysis Team

Purpose of the session

The session will begin with a panel of representatives from the CCC and the Adaptation Sub-Committee to discuss their Evidence Report.

Followed by a panel with Lord Gardiner, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Rural Affairs and Biosecurity, to discuss the Government's response and long term climate change adaptation policy. 

Further information

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