The National Trust says climate change-linked extreme weather is now the biggest threat to its sites.

Flooding, wildfires and extreme weather threaten the future of nearly three-quarters of sites managed by the National Trust, a new report says.

The charity says climate change is “the single biggest threat” facing its 28,500 historic homes, 250,000 hectares of land and 780 miles of coastline.

In Monday’s report, the trust called on the UK government to do more to help organisations adapt to climate change.

  • @joneskindEnglish
    9•1 year ago

    The amount of money that is needed to counter the effects of global warming is rapidly outweighing the amount of money we were told it would cost to avoid it.

    But hey, billionaires got richer, right?

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The trust is monitoring the climate change threats posed to its stately homes, museum collections, parks, gardens and land holdings by mapping current extreme weather events, such as downpours, flooding, drought and wildfires.

    When the map was launched in 2021, it estimated that the number of National Trust sites facing a high level of threat from issues such as coastal erosion, extreme heat and flooding could rise from 5% to 17% over the next 40 years.

    Catherine Lee, community manager for the National Trust on the Lizard Peninsula, told the BBC: "We’ve reached the threshold where we feel very strongly that it’s unviable to repair the southern breakwater like-for-like.

    At the Iron Age hill fort Dinas Dinlle on Wales’ Gwynedd coast, erosion made worse by heavy rainfall in recent years is destroying the site, with many parts already lost to the sea.

    The National Trust is now calling for more funding and support from government for landowners, heritage organisations and tourism groups across England, Wales and Northern Ireland to help them adapt their buildings, coastlines and countryside to better cope with the impacts of climate change

    The UK government said it had a national adaptation programme that does set out a five-year plan to increase the country’s resilience to climate change risks, including those posed to heritage sites and its coastline and countryside.

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