Sustainable Environments
The Sustainable Environments Programme brings together cross-sector expertise and strategic intelligence to build long-term national climate resilience across urban and natural environments.
Accelerating innovation for climate resilience
Climate impacts are already accelerating, increasing pressure across infrastructure, cities, supply chains, and natural ecosystems. These pressures are not isolated, but are interconnected and compounding, requiring a more integrated approach to how risks are understood and addressed.
As the UK seeks to strengthen competitiveness and deliver sustainable growth, climate resilience is becoming increasingly central to how that ambition is realised in practice. The performance of the UK’s growth sectors depends on reliable infrastructure, resilient supply chains, healthy natural systems, and places that can continue to support economic activity under increasing and sustained disruption.
By bringing together stakeholders across sectors, the Sustainable Environments Programme aims to help translate climate resilience needs into practical innovation opportunities that support economic growth and social value.
Focus areas
Resilient cities and infrastructure
Exploring how smart city innovation, digital technologies and place-based approaches can help cities better anticipate and respond to climate disruption.
Biodiversity and nature
Enabling innovation that regenerates and supports healthier environmental ecosystems and strengthens nature-based resilience.
Extreme heat and cooling
Exploring solutions that respond to overheating and improve thermal comfort.
Flooding and drought
Supporting innovation that improves understanding, prediction and management of water-related climate risks and pressures.
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Join the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Innovation Network to learn from peers, participate in cross-sector events, and discover best practice on emerging risks, technologies and innovation opportunities shaping the future of climate resilience.
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Collaborate and build new partnerships
Our experts connect you to the right partners across industry, academia and government to grow and scale your innovation.
Find funding and investment opportunities
Explore relevant innovation competitions and investment opportunities related to sustainable environments and climate resilience.
Learn from expert insights
Explore insights on how emerging technologies, data-driven tools and decentralised approaches can strengthen climate resilience, support adaptation interventions and enable better informed decision-making.
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Related Events and Recordings
Thu
13
Nov
2025
Horizon Europe: Adaptation to Climate Change and 100 Climate-Neutral & Smart Cities webinar
11.00 - 12.00 | Online
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Wed
26
Feb
2025
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