UK Green Taxonomy (Actions 1 and 2) 5. Standards from the International Sustainability Standards Board – IFRS S2 6. Environmental, Social, and Governance data and ratings (Actions 1 and 2) 7. Greening Finance Roadmap (Actions 1 and 2) 8. Climate Financial Risk Forum (Actions 1 and 2) 9. Signatories to the UK Stewardship Code – FRC (Actions 1 and 2) 10. Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Actions 1 and 2) 11. PRA 2019 supervisory statement (Actions 1 and 2) 12. Bank of England 2021 Climate Biennial Exploratory Scenario (Actions 1, 2, 4 13. Ongoing engagement with insurance industry and regulators such as the FCA

B5 – Risks to business from reduced employee productivity due to infrastructure disruption and higher temperatures in working environments (DBT) Establish a baseline understanding of business readiness and preparedness for high temperatures to minimise impacts for businesses of various sectors, sizes and 1. DBT will carry out annual online surveys for UK businesses from 2023 onwards to understand awareness levels and business readiness for climate change incidents, including higher temperatures. 2. DBT will develop and publish a high temperature and heatwave advice factsheet with the Health and Safety Executive, circulating the factsheet to businesses through trusted government stakeholder networks by the end of 2023 to increase business awareness of information sources on tackling risk from higher temperatures, including access to insurance and understanding of the changing insurance market. DBT will use platforms such as the SME Climate Hub to disseminate guidance. 3. DBT will work with the Met Office to review provision of accessible climate risk data to businesses by the end of 2023. 4. The Cabinet Office will make resilience training accessible to businesses, including through delivering a new UK Resilience Academy by 2025, built out of the Emergency Planning College. 1. Office for National Statistics (Action 1) 2. Business representative organisations, trade associations and professional 3. Local Enterprise Partnerships (Actions 1 and 2) 4. Business Improvement Districts (Actions 1 and 2) 5. Local authorities (Actions 1 and 2) 6. The UK Health Security Agency and Met Office weather and health alert 7. Government bulletins and newsletters (Action 2) 9. Heat-health alert service (Action 2) 11. SME Climate Hub (Action 2) 12. Met Office UK Climate Projections (Action 3)

B6 – Risks to businesses from disruption to supply chains and distribution networks (DBT) Establish a baseline understanding of business readiness and preparedness for impacts of climate change on supply chains and distribution networks. 1. DBT will carry out annual online surveys for UK businesses from 2023 onwards to understand awareness levels and business readiness for climate change incidents, including their impact on supply chains and distribution 2. DBT will engage with other government departments and businesses throughout the NAP3 implementation period to 2028 and beyond to develop and share analysis and advice on identifying and managing supply chain vulnerability to climate change risk, including through the DBT supply chains resilience framework and Global Supply Chains Intelligence Programme. The effect of planned engagement will be monitored through quarterly internal 3. DBT will engage with businesses over the next few months in the development of a new strategy on supply chains and imports for publication in autumn 2023. This will provide a coherent overview of the UK’s priorities and drive specific action by government and businesses in response to a range of risks to critical imports, including climate change. 4. DBT will ensure that resilience to extreme weather and climate change is part of the government’s sectoral, economic and security plans and strategies through the NAP3 implementation period to 2028 and beyond. Climate change adaptation is integrated into the UK Government Resilience Framework, the Integrated Review Refresh 2023, the Climate Finance Strategy, the Green Finance Strategy and Powering Up Britain. 5. The Cabinet Office will make resilience training accessible to businesses, including through delivering a new UK Resilience Academy by 2025, built out of the Emergency Planning College. 1. Office for National Statistics (Action 1) 2. Business representative organisations, trade associations and professional 3. Local Enterprise Partnerships (Actions 1 and 2) 4. Business Improvement Districts (Actions 1 and 2) 5. Local authorities (Actions 1 and 2) 6. DBT sector teams (Actions 1 and 2) 7. DBT supply chains resilience framework (Action 2) 8. Global Supply Chains Intelligence Programme (Action 2) 9. Government Office for Science project on global supply chains (Action 2)

10. A new strategy on supply chains and imports (Actions 3 and 4) 11. DBT business toolkits (Action 3)

B7 – Opportunities for business from changes in demand for goods and services (DBT) Maximise opportunities for businesses to take advantage of changing demands and emerging markets in response to climate change. 1. DBT will undertake further research beginning in 2023 and continuing over the NAP3 period to 2028 and beyond, to identify future climate-related opportunities, including opportunities around climate-related services and how climate impacts supply of goods to the UK. 2. DBT will cascade climate -related emerging market data to business sectors, beginning in 2023 and continuing over the NAP3 period to 2028 and beyond , using existing stakeholder networks to improve business awareness around climate-related information sources. 1. Government Office for Science project on global supply chains (Action 1) 2. DBT sector leads and account managers (Action 2) 3. Business representative organisations (Action 2) 4. Local Enterprise Partnerships (Action 2) 5. Business Improvement Districts (Action 2) 6. Local authorities (Action 2)

ID1 – Risks to food availability, safety and quality from climate change overseas (Defra) Support more resilient domestic food supply chains that can cope better with future climate shocks and disruptions from overseas. 1. Defra will continue to improve our understanding of how climate change is impacting food supply in the UK Food Security Report, due for publication in 2024, to improve the measurement and monitoring of UK food security. 2.
Defra will continue to fund and support research in this area, via the multi- annual Met Office Hadley Centre’s Food, Farming and Natural Environment service and the Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM) until March 2025, subject to availability of funding. 3. The government will incorporate the risk of climate-related disruptions into food supply contingency planning and risk and assurance processes. This will increase the robustness of risk assessment processes and enhance the resilience of our agri-food system to maintain UK food security. Assurance documents are updated on a yearly basis. 4. Defra will support industry to adapt to climate change • partnering with the Food and Drink Sector Council to bring together leaders from across the agri-food chain. Through this forum we will consider the risks climate change poses to food supply and the appropriate responses – scoping work with industry will take place over • providing funding for the Waste and Resources Action Programme’s Courtauld 2030 Water Security Roadmap to achieve better water stewardship in key sourcing areas by 2030. 1. UK Food Security Report (Action 1) 2. Met Office Hadley Centre’s Food, Farming and Natural Environment service 4. Food sector critical national infrastructure, government risk planning and assurance documents (Action 3) 5. Food and Drink Sector Council (Action 4) 6. Waste and Resources Action Programme’s Water Security Roadmap (Action

ID2 – Opportunities for UK food availability and exports from climate change impacts overseas Maximise opportunities for UK food producers arising from climate change. 1. Defra will support research into growing new or underutilised crops throughout 2023 to 2024 that can enhance the productivity, sustainability and resilience 2. Defra will incorporate climate scenarios into trade modelling by 2025 and continue to work with our research partners to develop evidence on climate 1. Crop Genetic Improvement Networks (Action 1) 2. Met Office Hadley Centre research programme (Action 1) 3. Defra agri-food research and evidence programme (Action 2) 4. Defra trade models (Action 2)

ID3 – Risks and opportunities to the UK from climate-related international human mobility (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office – Minimise risks to the UK from climate-related mobility and maximise opportunities for migrants affected by climate change. 1. FCDO will provide policy advice and Official Development Assistance support during the International Climate Finance (ICF) spending period from 2021 to 2026. This will help countries most affected by climate change to adapt to the impacts, which should reduce impact of climate change as a driver of 2. FCDO and DESNZ will support the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and influence multilateral organisations to develop policies for dealing with climate-related migration throughout 2023 and 2024 to ensure safe, orderly and regular movements of people where 3. FCDO and the Home Office will support safe and legal routes along climate mobility corridors and build the capacity for countries receiving migrants 4. FCDO will provide disaster risk support and early warning systems during the current ICF spending period to reduce the impact of sudden onset events and the potential for major movements of people. 5. FCDO will continue to fund nature-based solutions programmes between 2021 and 2026 to support disaster risk reduction, security and conflict prevention by protecting, restoring and sustainably managing nature. 1. UK International Climate Finance, including a commitment to spend £11.6 billion between 2021 and 2026 with a balance between adaptation and 2. Funding to the United Nations (UN) Migration Multi-Partner Trust Fund between 2019 and 2023 (Action 2) 3. Better Regional Migration Management (Actions 2 and 3) 4. Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (Action 4) 5. ICF £3 billion commitment to nature (Action 5)

ID4 – Risks to UK from violent conflict overseas resulting from climate change (FCDO) Minimise the potential impacts of climate-related overseas violent conflict on the UK by better understanding the links between climate, conflict and instability, and acting to anticipate and mitigate developing threats. 1. FCDO will continue to work with the UN, throughout 2023 to 2024, to better understand the impact of climate security on peacebuilding and on integrating this into multilateral peacebuilding. 2. FCDO will explore, throughout 2023, how to integrate climate-related drivers into conflict and instability risk assessments at global and country level. 3. FCDO will strengthen methods for integration of a conflict lens into climate interventions during 2023 to 2024 to achieve increased capability to tackle 4. FCDO and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) will assess and strengthen the evidence base on links between climate, vulnerability and stability during 2023 to 2025 to achieve an informed approach to adaptation actions. 5. FCDO, DESNZ and Defra will ensure UK Official Development Official Development Assistance includes adaptation for climate-vulnerable countries between 2023 and 2026 to help build their resilience and reduce the chances 6. FCDO will fund almost £1 billion in projects that tackle complex security challenges abroad to keep the UK safe from global sources of volatility and insecurity through the new UK Integrated Security Fund. 1. International peacebuilding forums, such as the UN’s Group of Friends, Peacebuilding Commission, and the G7 working group on peacebuilding and 2. FCDO’s Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Programme and UN peacebuilding work, combining programme and policy (Action 1) 3. FCDO policy, partners and programmes, including its regular assessment of global conflict, instability and atrocity risks undertaken in partnership with other government departments and external partners (Actions 2 and 3) 4. MOD’s Climate Change and Sustainability Strategic Approach Epoch 2021 to 2025 sets the foundation of the evidence base and Epoch 2 2026 to 2035, will focus on adaptation and enhancing the response – FCDO research and 5. UK International Climate Finance commitments, including specific adaptation

6. UK Integrated Security Fund (Action 6)

ID5 – Risks to international law and governance from climate change that will impact the UK (FCDO) Encourage countries to comply with and strengthen the frameworks of international law and governance, including those related to climate change. 1.
FCDO and DESNZ will seek to reduce the risk of successful legal challenges to climate change policies and provide adaptation and resilience support to the most vulnerable between 2023 and 2025. They will engage early and often in multilateral fora such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the UN Security Council, to ensure policies are defensible to challenge and widely supported internationally. 2. FCDO and DESNZ will lead on climate diplomacy internationally between 2023 and 2025 to progress climate actions under the UN Framework 3. FCDO will contribute to multilateral fora – for example, the International Court of Justice and the UN General Assembly – to ensure the rights of people impacted by climate change are considered. 4. FCDO will continue to work with partners until at least 2026 to improve how developing countries access climate finance, so they can better respond to the impacts of climate change. This will help address the risk of sovereign defaults in emerging economies due to climate impacts. 1. Post COP presidency actions and initiatives, including engagement with UN climate negotiations, COP28, COP29 and COP30, and the building of networks among likeminded allies (Actions 1 and 2) 2. Climate Resilient Debt Clauses and the Taskforce on Access to Climate 3. Engagement with international human rights processes (Action 3)

ID6 – Opportunities from climate change (including Arctic sea ice melt) for international trade routes Consider the CCRA3 advice on ID6. 1. DfT will continue to engage with the International Maritime Organization between 2023 and 2025 to ensure effective governance and environmental protections are in place to regulate ships operating in Arctic waters. 2. FCDO will continue to coordinate UK engagement with the Arctic Council’s Working Groups during the current Norwegian Chairship (2023 to 2025) to promote safe, responsible and sustainable activity related to Arctic shipping. 1. International Maritime Organization (Action 1) 2. Arctic Council Working Groups (Action 2)

ID7 – Risks associated with international trade Minimise the risk of climate-related disruption to the UK’s critical international supply 1. DBT will publish a new strategy on supply chains and imports in autumn 2023 to provide a coherent overview of the UK’s priorities and drive specific action by government and business in response to any threats and hazards, including climate change, to the critical imports for the UK’s national security 2. DBT will continue to develop and share analysis, including through mapping climate vulnerabilities and monitoring disruptive events, to drive evidence- based decision making throughout and beyond 2023. This will help government and businesses respond to climate change risks posed to critical supply chains in line with government priorities. 3. DBT will support and advise relevant teams within government and businesses to develop policies and interventions to guide both public and private sector organisations actions to mitigate climate change risks and vulnerabilities in supply chains. The success of this will be monitored through quarterly internal reviews from 2023. 4. DBT will engage with business, seeking industry views on a new supply chains and imports strategy in summer 2023, to enable information sharing on how climate-related disruption affects supply chains between government and 5. DBT will incorporate climate considerations in relevant critical supply chain stress tests by the end of 2024, including with international partners, to understand the resilience of critical supply chains to climate-related 6. DBT will support UK companies to target sustainable infrastructure solutions and systems in vulnerable countries throughout 2022 to 2024 to enhance industry awareness of financing and promote delivery of critical infrastructure 7. DBT will encourage insurance solutions and improve climate forecasting and infrastructure investment from 2022 to 2024 to minimise the risk of uninsured losses to the UK finance sector from climate change and protect supply 1. A new strategy on supply chains and imports (Actions 1 and 4) 3. DBT Global Supply Chains and Economic Security Directorate (Actions 3 and

4. Business of Resilience Taskforce (Actions 6 and 7)

ID8 – Risks to the UK finance sector from climate Prevent climate risks originating from overseas causing a systemic failure of the UK 1. The government will use the UK’s influence to continue to push for the global adoption of the International Sustainability Standards Board’s standards following the release of the final standards (expected in summer 2023) to ensure the system discloses and responds to climate risks. 2. HMT, working with the PRA and FCA, will monitor climate risks in insurance markets including Lloyd’s of London through the NAP3 implementation period to 2028 and beyond to ensure continued government awareness of the impact of climate change on insurance markets. 3. HMT will monitor the availability and affordability of different lines of insurance through the NAP3 implementation period to 2028 and beyond to ensure continued government awareness of the impact of climate change on 4. The government will shape policy and work with regulators, such as the FCA, PRA, the Pensions Regulator and the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) through the NAP3 implementation period to 2028 and beyond to ensure that financial sector participants have consistent, accurate information to help manage their exposure to climate risks and achieve greater transparency in the market. Work this year will include setting out further detail on the implementation of Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDRs), consulting on the UK Green Taxonomy and launching a formal assessment mechanism for the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Sustainability 5. HMT will support transition plan disclosure requirements on financial market participants through the NAP3 implementation period to 2028 and beyond to address systemic climate-related financial risk across the financial system. HMT established the Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) to develop a standard for transition plans, including how wider financial risks arising from adaptation should be reported within an overall risk management disclosure. 6. HMT will work with international partners to support the interoperability and standardisation of financial market participants’ plans to adapt to climate risks and to a low -carbon economy throughout the NAP3 implementation period to 2028 and beyond.
HMT will seek international agreements which enhance and expand transition planning across the global economy and international 7. DBT will consult on the introduction of requirements for the UK’s largest companies to disclose any transition plans they have once the TPT has released its final recommen dations and guidance by the end of 2023,

supporting companies to address climate -related financial risk across the economy and enabling the financial system in doing the same. 8. HMT continue to support the work of the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), which has been set up to create a risk management and disclosure framework due for publication in September 2023, for organisations to report and act on evolving nature -related risks and opportunities. The government will explore how best the final TNFD framework outcomes should be incorporated into UK policy and legislative architecture 1. International Sustainability Standards Board standards, particularly, climate-related disclosures (Actions 1, 4 and 5) 2. SDRs (Actions 1, 4, 5 and 6) 3. G20 and Sustainable Finance Working Group (Actions 1, 4 and 6) 4. International Platform on Sustainable Finance (Actions 1, 4 and 6) 5. Transition Plan Taskforce (Actions 4, 5, 6 and 7) 6. Bank of England’s 2021 Climate Biennial Exploratory Scenario (Actions 2, 3, 4 7. Ongoing engagement with insurance industry and regulators such as the FCA 8. Financial Stability Board (Actions 4 and 5) 9. Network for Greening the Financial System (Actions 4, 5 and 6) 10. Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Actions 4 and 5) 11. Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (Action 8)

ID9 – Risks to UK public health from climate change Minimise threats from imported VBDs, including limiting the potential transmission by native and non-native vectors in the UK. 1. UKHSA will conduct horizon scanning and epidemic intelligence to identify changes in the distribution of VBDs worldwide through the NAP3 implementation period from 2023 to 2028 to help build awareness of changes associated with climate change. This action will be reviewed annually. 2. DHSC and UKHSA will raise awareness of VBD risks and preventative steps to enable the public to make informed decisions about measures to protect themselves against VBDs through the NAP3 implementation period from 2023 to 2028. This action will be reviewed annually. 3. DHSC and UKHSA will complete a suite of government contingency plans for specific VBDs to ensure rapid, coordinated responses to detections of invasive mosquitoes or VBDs such as dengue or West Nile virus through the NAP3 implementation period from 2023 to 2028. This action will be reviewed 4. UKHSA (funded by FCDO) will build capacity in British Overseas Territories for VBD resilience to achieve increased uptake of new and innovative vector surveillance methods to maximise control measure impacts through the NAP3 implementation period from 2023 to 2028. This action will be reviewed 5. DHSC and UKHSA will continually raise awareness and train healthcare professionals to recognise potential cases of non-endemic VBDs to increase referrals for testing and the detection of more cases through the NAP3 implementation period from 2023 to 2028. 6. UKHSA will seek to enhance their laboratory testing capability to support early detection of a wider range of imported disease threats to the UK through the NAP3 implementation period from 2023 to 2028, with annual reviews of 7. UKHSA will strengthen links with NHS tropical disease centres. It will pilot approaches to improve surveillance and detection of imported VBDs and diagnostics research and evaluation through the NAP3 implementation period from 2023 to 2028, with annual reviews on progress of the action. 1. UKHSA’s epidemic intelligence reports (Action 1) 2. Monthly reports published on GOV.UK (Action 1) 3. National Travel Health Network and Centre news updates and outbreak 4. Country-specific travel advice on GOV.UK (Action 2)

5. UKHSA Vector Borne Disease Plans including the West Nile Virus 6. Invasive Mosquito Contingency Plan (Action 3) 7. International Health Regulations National Focal Point (Action 4) 8. Establishment of the UKHSA Centre for Climate and Health Security (Action 9. UKHSA partnership with tropical disease centres in London and Liverpool (Action 7) to deliver the imported fever service (Action 5) 10. Weekly UKHSA-led imported fever service teleconference for hospital-based medical professionals (Actions 5 and 7) 11. UKHSA diagnostic testing for the NHS of imported VBDs through its Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory and imported fever service (Action 6)

ID10 – Systemic risks from climate change to the UK that have the potential to cascade across sectors Minimise the impacts of overseas climate-related risk cascades on the UK. 1. FCDO will use its network of international posts, the UK’s position in various international bodies and the government’s research capacity during 2023 to 2025 to identify and inform responses to developing climate risks across the 2. FCDO and the Cabinet Office (CO) will ensure that the UK’s risk management processes account for systemic transnational risks that cascade across borders and sectors by 2025, to ensure risk management processes consider 3. CO and Defra will establish a new, senior officials Climate Resilience Steering Board to oversee strategic, cross-cutting climate adaptation and resilience issues and drive further government action to increase UK resilience to 4. With FCDO’s support on international risks, CO will continue to lead on implementing the UK Government Resilience Framework by 2030. This will strengthen the government’s ability to anticipate and respond to all threats and risks, including climate change. 5. The government will triple International Climate Finance funding for adaptation from 2019 levels to £1.5bn in 2025 for FCDO, Defra and DESNZ to help build the adaptive capacity of countries and reduce potential for the outbreak of cascading events that could impact on the UK. 6. Defra will engage the Climate Change Committee (CCC) to shift to a systems- based risk assessment approach in the fourth Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA4), which will be published in January 2027. This will seek to connect the National Security Risk Assessment and CCRA processes to better understand the cascading effects between national security and climate 7.
FCDO will continue to co-chair the Adaptation Research Alliance funded through to 2026. This is a coalition of researchers, funders, policymakers and community-based organisations that seek to increase investment and opportunities to develop better adaptation solutions. 1. National Security Risk Assessment (Action 1) 2. UK Government Resilience Framework (Actions 1 and 4)

3. UK network of overseas posts, including dedicated climate advisors (Action 4. UK-led research and evidence into impacts of climate change such as the Adaptation Research Alliance (Actions 2, 5 and 7) 5. UK International Climate Finance (Action 5)