Having suffered extensive damage from heavy flooding and extreme gales during the past decade, public bodies in the north east of England wanted to understand how climate change would impact its people, economy and environment and how it could adapt.

As a result the North East Climate Change Partnership was formed in July 2007 and called the region’s public, private and voluntary sector organisations to unite to develop a shared understanding of climate change and commit to tackle the issue head on. In December 2007 the region’s stakeholders including 25 councils publicly pledged to tackle climate change.

The partnership commissioned Royal Haskoning to undertake a study into projected climatic impacts in the region and investigate how it could adapt. Launched in April 2008, the study became the first of its kind to cover an entire UK government region and first to make modelling projections at an improved scale of resolution.

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