Including the closely related terms flood, flooding, and flood risk.
… are at risk of flooding and sign up for flood warnings. • If in a flood risk area, make your home more resilient. • Check if you have the right level of insurance. • In extremely hot weather, look after yourself and neighbours/more vulnerable. • Use water efficiently and install a water meter. SUMMARY OF OUR ACTIONS – RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE Other key partners • United…
… are at risk of flooding and sign up for flood warnings. • If in a flood risk area, make your premises more resilient and link up with neighbouring properties. • Check if you have the right level of insurance. • Put in place green roofs and/or green walls and/or plant trees. • Use water efficiently and install a water meter. Local policy • Develop a Resilience Strategy, with a roadmap…
… published in 2019. • Undertake a Strategic Flood Risk Assessment to ensure future growth aspirations consider flood risk. • Implement proposals to manage flood risk and the water environment in new development. • Develop an Infrastructure Strategy to address our key infrastructure challenges relating to flood risk and resilience. • Development by 2021 an investment strategy for future flood…
… risk infrastructure. • Subject to formal approval, GMCA establish a programme of innovative funding mechanisms to deliver increased investment in nature-based adaptation solutions (INGITION). • Consider the development of appropriate indicators to monitor and evaluate how prepared we are for the future impacts of climate change. What we need from government policy • Continued…
… and increased funding to support the flood and coastal risk management programme 22 | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY HOW WILL WE TRACK PROGRESS? GMCA will report annually on progress with delivering the plan on behalf of Greater Manchester against a set of key indicators drawn from existing data. For commitments made by GMCA, Local Authorities (LAs) and others in this plan relating to their operations…