Historic England and the English Heritage Trust have updated their ‘Climate Change Adaptation Report’, a document written in response to the Government’s Fourth Adaptation Reporting Power (ARP4) call under provisions in Part 4, Section 62 of the Climate Change Act 2008. 

This latest edition builds on the Third Adaptation Reporting Power (ARP3) report submitted jointly by HE and English Heritage to the UK Government in 2022, and includes updated risk assessments and adaptation plans. Identifying climate-driven risks and the necessary adaptation measures are an essential part of climate action. For heritage organisations such as HE and English Heritage, this means understanding and responding to organisational and operational risks, as well as the risks faced by the historic environment that they are tasked with protecting. This report considers climate-driven risks for HE as an organisation in relation to its management of personnel, facilities, and equipment, as well as to its role as champion of England’s heritage.

The report also considers climate-driven risks to heritage assets on the National Heritage List for England, hundreds of which are protected industrial archaeology and industrial heritage sites open to the public and run by charities, local authorities, private individuals, and companies. It also assesses the National Heritage Collection which is cared for and opened to the public by English Heritage, and includes several industrial heritage sites such as Derwencote Steel Furnace, Saxstead Green Post Mill, and Stott Park Bobbin Mill.

The 2024 report includes sections on:

● The statutory and other functions of the organisations;
● The current and future projected impacts of climate change on the
organisations;
● Proposals for adapting to climate change;
● An assessment of progress towards implementing the policies and
proposals set out in previous reports.

To download the 2024 report follow this link: https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/70-2024?search=70/2024&searchType=research+report