Climate change adaptation refers to the process of adjusting our lifestyles and practices to cope with the current and expected impacts of climate change.
Changing how we do things now will increase our resilience to climate change effects in the future.
In North Somerset, current and expected impacts of climate change include
- warmer and drier summers, likely to break temperature records
- wetter and warmer winters
- more extreme weather events, including devastating flooding
- sea level rise