The UK Climate Change Act (2008) is the legally binding framework for climate change mitigation and adaptation. One of the Act’s requirements is for the Government to commission a UK-wide Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) every five years. The first CCRA, published in 2012, gives a detailed analysis of 100 major risks from future climate change across 11 key sectors/themes on basis of their likelihood, the scale of their potential consequences and the urgency to address them. Another requirement of the Act is for the Government to present to Parliament a National Adaptation Programme (NAP) setting out the Government’s objectives, policies and proposals for adaptation that will address the risks identified by the CCRA. The framework aims to monitor and to evaluate the progress made in implementing the NAP.