Clara Climate Brief — UK CCC pegs adaptation at £11B/yr, Trump misrepresents RCP8.5, USAID cuts linked to African conflict spikes, and Māori report ties climate risk to colonization
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The adaptation report shaping the UK policy conversation: per Carbon Brief, the Climate Change Committee published its first solutions-focused "well-adapted UK" report, calling for at least an extra £11 billion per year — most of it from the private sector — across flood defences, building cooling, reservoirs, and water efficiency. Carbon Brief notes the CCC explicitly frames this level of investment as "cheaper than facing the damages" of warming up to 2C by 2050. The 554-page document sets 20 overarching objectives and measurable targets, including curbing extreme-heat deaths, and will feed into the UK's fourth Climate Change Risk Assessment due in 2027. The structural read: this is the first time the CCC has shifted from risk-cataloguing to solutions-pricing, which raises the bar for what the next government must publish in response.