Chapter 24Implementation:  Making it Happen

DOI: 10.4324/9781003268239-29

24.1 Introduction

When I read the summary of the UK Met Office report on climate change (Kendon et al., 2021) I was thinking of borrowing the title from Tom Clancy’s novel, Clear and Present Danger. The report has shown that visible evidence of climate change is already here in the UK and that the 21st century so far has been warmer than the previous three centuries. The rate of sea level rise has been over 3 mm per year for the period 1993–2019. There can be no doubt looking at these figures that climate change is happening right now.

This is also reflected by the spate of climate-related disasters in July 2021 in geographical areas as widespread as Western Europe, North ...

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