{"id":501283,"date":"2025-10-15T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/501283\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:58:10","slug":"gad-sets-up-new-cross-government-climate-resilience-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/501283\/","title":{"rendered":"GAD sets up new cross-government climate resilience network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government departments are joining forces to understand and tackle climate-related risks in public estates through the Cross-Government Climate Ready Estates Network (CCREN). This is an initiative which has been convened by the Government Actuary\u2019s Department (GAD).<\/p>\n<p>GAD is bringing together experts from across Whitehall to share best practice and develop innovative solutions for climate adaptation and resilience. Among the network\u2019s members are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cabinet Office<\/li>\n<li>Ministry of Justice<\/li>\n<li>Department for Education<\/li>\n<li>Government Property Agency<\/li>\n<li>NHS Property Services<\/li>\n<li>Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Strategic priorities<\/p>\n<p>CCREN aims to bridge the gap between policy and delivery for climate adaptation and resilience, by facilitating regular meetings, thematic deep-dives, and sharing practical methodologies. It aims to foster understanding of the challenges faced by public sector organisations in adapting to and mitigating climate-related risks and opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The network\u2019s focus includes climate risk assessment, adaptation strategies, and building capability to ensure public estates remain robust in the face of future challenges.<\/p>\n<p>GAD\u2019s leadership<\/p>\n<p>Through GAD\u2019s co-ordination of the network, departments are able to work together to begin to address complex infrastructure risks, which includes the risk of overheating and flooding as well as potential disruptions to critical systems, that can affect the economy, security, and public wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>CCREN\u2019s collaborative approach helps to support climate-ready estates and improve outcomes for people and places across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>GAD Climate Risk Consultant Dr. Charlotte Marcinko, who is one of the group\u2019s co-chairs, said: \u201cDepartments and organisations often grapple with similar challenges in understanding and tackling climate risks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy bringing together expertise from across government, we\u2019re not just sharing knowledge &#8211; we\u2019re building the analytical strength needed to make our public estates truly resilient.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Government departments are joining forces to understand and tackle climate-related risks in public estates through the Cross-Government Climate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-501283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115377832348332859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}