It is bringing forward a target to raise defences in the city to 2050, rather than by 2065 as originally planned. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - Britain is accelerating plans to protect London from flooding caused by a warming climate and rising sea levels, bringing forward its scheme of work to protect the city centre by 15 years.
The government said in a statement on Wednesday that it was speeding up an existing climate adaptation programme, bringing forward a target to raise defences in the city to 2050, rather than by 2065 as originally set out in a 2012 document. The government statement said the change was based on improved climate change models which showed the “heightened risk of flooding from a warming climate and rising sea levels.”
In April, the World Meteorological Organisation said global sea levels were rising at more than double the pace they did in the first decade of measurements in 1993-2002 and touched a new record high last year.
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