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Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council

… cannot avert the risk of the likely impacts of climate change. As such, our resilience approach will recognise that the impact of climate change on our people, businesses and infrastructure will be composed of a hierarchy of scales of risk and impact. And our climate resilience will develop our ability to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to severe weather events, trends, or disturbances…

… • Develop an updated Local Climate Impacts Profile to highlight the current vulnerability to severe weather events, and how these events affect local communities as well as Council assets, infrastructure and capacity to deliver services With the development of this Action Plan, and the associated works around this, the Council and our communities will be better placed to understand the current…

… A – Adaptation R - Resilience Timescales Key Performance Indicators Resources / Financing Required Partner Organisations / departments 3.1 Our People Civil Contingencies A/R - Review and existing civil contingency and emergency plans that deal with severe weather events in particular relating travel and weather information and working to support the most vulnerable people across…

… to Climate Change The Impact of Covid-19 Layout of the Action PlanGovernance of the Action Plan Section 1 Section 3 Section 6 Section 2 Section 5Section 4 Section 7 3 The climate crisis is a threat to all areas of life. Whether that be our reliance on fossil fuels for power and energy, extreme weather that all corners of the world can fall victim to, or the over-consumption of products…

… community support and spirit and ensuring that nobody fallsl victim to the extreme weather and changing climate. Within Wigan borough, we currently are and will continue to experience an increasing trend of warmer, wetter winters and hotter, drier summers with less frequent but more intense extreme weather events including storms, droughts and heatwaves. These events have the potential…