Adapting to Climate Change

Check your area for flood risk:

• Long-term flood risk: postcode checker
• Learn more about your long term flood risk

Check your area for heat risk:

• Vulnerability to extreme heat: postcode checker

Extreme weather warnings

• Follow the West Midlands Prepared on Twitter for updates from the West Midlands' Local Resilience Forum
• See current UK weather warning from the Met Office
• Sign up for heat-related health alerts from the UK Health Security Agency & Met Office’s Heat-health alert service
• View the UK Health Security Agency & Met Office’s Weather Health Alerts Dashboards

British Red Cross

• Heatwave support and advice from the British Red Cross.
• Top tips for keeping cool in hot weather.
• Guidance on preparing for drought and water shortages in the UK.
• Guidance on staying safe when wildfires hit.

NHS England

• Coping with hot weather in the UK
• How to handle heat exhaustion and heat stroke in the UK

West Midlands Fire Service

• Staying safe in Heatwaves

Age UK

• Keeping ourselves and those most vulnerable to heat cool in heatwaves.

• Guidance on adapting and reducing exposure to flood risk from the Met Office
• Preparing for floods with the British Red Cross
• Floods explained: what are floods and why do they occur?
• West Midlands Fire Service: what to do when it floods?

Birmingham Botanical Gardens have led a research project to address the need to understand the impact of climate change on the tree canopy in Birmingham.

Conducted in partnership with local community outreach groups, and the University of Birmingham, valuable tree data has been collected to gain an understanding of how well different tree species perform in Birmingham.

In addition, 640 free visits have been provided to groups working with the most vulnerable people in our region to engage in citizen science workshops, writing workshops, and creative engagement activities to help them learn about the environment and the tree canopy.

BME United delivered training to approximately 240 members of BME communities in Wolverhampton to enable them to be more resilient and prepared for the impacts of climate change.

Holyhead Road Allotments, based in Coventry, has transformed an area of the side that had become water-logged due to climate change. Using more sustainable practices they have reclaimed the water-logged allotment space and allowed half of the space to be brought back into productive food growing use, while half has been enhanced as wet woodland and meadow habitat for nature.

The did this by creating new wildlife habitats, conserving water, building raised beds as well as delivering climate adaptation workshops for allotment holders and local gardeners.