FREE WEBINAR: What to do next when assessing climate risks

Has your Council included climate as a risk in the corporate risk register?  Are your services and assets ready for more extreme weather to become the new normal?

The reality of climate change is no longer distant, it’s here!

After a winter of widespread flooding, and with three heatwaves in summer 2025, local authorities face growing financial and operational risks to service delivery and supporting community resilience and recovery. Building resilience is no longer just a sustainability goal, it’s a necessity for survival. This webinar will explore how councils can move beyond risk assessments to decision making for future service design and asset management. Recent articles highlight the growing challenge of adapting buildings to a 2°C warmer world, and the reality of communities and places becoming insurable due to flood risk. This reveals a critical moment for you to rethink how you prepare for a future defined by extreme weather. The webinar features Erin Owain from Howden Group, who leads climate risk and resilience work across Wales, and Lucy Hoggins from Resilience Sustainable Solutions, who supports organisations with climate strategies, ESG programmes, and resilience planning. They will share practical insights on turning climate risk assessments into action.

How will you make decisions based on the risk assessments you have done and begin to put things into action?

Local Partnerships’ Climate Adaptation Toolkit has already supported many local authorities to develop climate risk assessments. This toolkit will help you start thinking about “what next?”. Can you put a price on resilience? Understanding the costs of adaptation and the even greater costs of inaction and uninsurability is essential. By leading this conversation, you can position yourself as thought leaders in this space. The risk assessment is just the first step in the process. The real challenge lies in quantifying costs of not adapting, and Local Partnerships can help get you there.