Weathering the Change

Natural Enterprise worked with the Island’s communities to ensure we maximised the benefits and minimised the costs of a changing climate.

It was the intention to:

• Increase understanding of how the Island is going to be affected.
• Increase understanding of how life and business will be influenced.
• Offer advice on how businesses, individuals and communities can thrive in our new climate.

We recognised that we need to change our behaviour to respond to the impacts of climate change; we need to adapt the way we live, work, build and travel. Adaptation needs to be built into planning and risk management now to ensure the continued and improved success of business and communities in the future.

Rising global temperatures will bring changes in our weather patterns including increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather (flooding, heat waves etc). Rising sea levels and more rapid coastal erosion will result in more frequent coastal flooding and eventually a new coastline.

We launched a series of activities, events and competitions to ensure individuals, communities and businesses were aware of how the Island will change and what they could do to prepare.