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Issue 124 | 28 October 2026 |
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On Friday, the UK Government announced new measures to help tackle the growing wildfire risk in the face of a changing climate. As well as support to firefighters, the Government will be working with organisations to manage wildfire risk including investing in making landscapes more resilient and bringing together a range of relevant expertise including Met Office capability on the potential for wildfire severity in light of weather conditions.
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Last week, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) published their Emissions Gap Report 2025. The report found that available new climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have only slightly lowered global temperature rise over the course of this century.
“Every additional fraction of a degree and additional year of warming above 1.5°C increases climate impacts and risks, such as the deadly floods, heatwaves and wildfires that have plagued many nations this year,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP. “So, we must pull out all the stops to minimize peak warming and return to 1.5°C by the end of the century. This is possible.
“We have a wealth of success stories showing that emissions can be cut quickly. It is now up to nations to urgently put in place policies that spark fast, deep and sustained emissions reductions, and put the world on track for a more stable climate and more stable economies and societies.”
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AmazonFACE is a UK-Brazil joint science partnership. Since 2021, the Met Office and Brazil's National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA) have worked together on the first-ever Free-Air CO₂ Enrichment (FACE) experiment in a tropical rainforest, endeavouring to understand how the Amazon, one of the Earth's most important climate regulators, will respond to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
Now funded through the International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF), the build of the infrastructure is complete, and the site is ready to commence remote, continuous data collection, marking a major programme milestone and the beginning of a new phase of internationally significant climate research.
More information and imagery of the experiment can be found in this Nature article:
We held our 21st UK Climate Projections (UKCP) webinar on Thursday 22 October. Dylan Pritchard (Mott MacDonald) and Thomas White (Severn Trent) discussed how climate change can be considered within water sector asset management, including approaches to identifying and quantifying potential impacts.
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From 9-20 November 2026, the UN Climate Change Conference, COP31, will take place in Türkiye. World leaders, scientists and other experts will come together to discuss and negotiate action against climate change.
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