Comment on the full Climate Adaptation Strategy

What is the Climate Adaptation Strategy?

As part of our Climate and Nature Emergency Plan, which we published in 2021, we set an action to create a Climate Adaptation Strategy.

Now, we'd like to hear what you think about our draft strategy.

The chart on the right shows how this strategy fits into our overall policy and legislation ecosystem.

It sets a vision for 'A well-prepared, climate resilient collaborative Stirling'.

In practice, that means that we will have:

Understanding and awareness of the impact, risks, opportunities, and actions to adapt to climate change.
Resilient buildings and infrastructure.
A protected natural environment.
Supported communities.

You can use the viewer at the bottom of this page or click the button on the right to read the full strategy and to leave us a comment anywhere in the document. If you'd like to answer a quick poll on the strategy, please click here.

If you have any difficulty responding via this page, or if you have any further questions about the strategy, please email insights@stirling.gov.uk.

What does climate change mean for us?

The Earth is warming and, with more energy entering the atmosphere, climates that were once familiar are becoming increasingly disrupted and less predictable.

Over the last few decades, Scotland has experienced a warming trend, shifting rainfall patterns and rising sea levels. The weather extremes experienced are also changing, with our hottest days getting hotter and our wettest days getting wetter. Climate projections indicate that the changes we have already experienced in our climate over the last century will continue and also intensify over the coming decades. The amount of change that takes place will depend on how successful we are in reducing greenhouse gas emissions globally.

Actions to plan and prepare for the impacts of a changing climate are known as Climate Adaptation and include preparing for heavy, intense rainfall episodes, increased flooding, extended droughts, and the consequences of extreme weather events impacting upon our global supply chains and other international dependencies.