Land & agriculture – Ensuring healthy & productive livestock, minimal crop failure, soil health, pollinators & pests, on-farm water storage, manging wildfire risks, and reducing risk of flooding to arable land.

Marine, fisheries & aquaculture - Maintaining healthy, resilient fish stocks and aquaculture activities, ensuring quality freshwater, marine and estuarine waters, adapting fishing and aquaculture practices to changes in temperatures and acidification, and managing and minimising spread of pests, diseases and invasive species.

Nature, peatlands, forests & woodland – The role of nature and peatlands in adapting to climate change and storing carbon, soils and soil health, minimising pests, diseases and invasive species, water quality and safeguarding terrestrial and freshwater and marine species, woodlands and trees including their role in preventing flooding, providing shade, carbon sequestration, protecting wildlife habitats and supporting a sustainable timber industry.

Resilient transport networks and operations – Ensuring existing transport assets (roads, rail, airports and ports) are prepared for current and future climate risks and impacts, and adapting new infrastructure. 

Energy system-level security of supply and resilience – Ensuring adaptation plans consider generation capacity, flexibility, redundancy, mix and location, and reducing vulnerability of assets for all major electricity and gas operators.

Telecoms & system-level resilience & assets – Contingency planning for weather-related outages, including redundancy in system design & operation, diversity of technology, protecting telecoms and ICT assets.

Water & wastewater infrastructure – Protecting water infrastructure, quality and supply from flooding, sea level rise and weather-related disruption, incident response planning, reducing household demand and increasing water use efficiency, minimising leakages and ensuring sufficient private supply.

Protecting businesses and employees from climate impacts - Minimising risks to business sites and productivity losses, protecting employees’ health and wellbeing from higher temperatures, and providing a safe working environment.

Identifying and managing supply chain risks & opportunities – Ensuring businesses have good supply chain resilience plans in place, and maximising opportunities for UK exports of climate adaptation goods and services.

Food security - Minimising disruption to food and feed supply chains, ensuring risks to food security and standards are considered within UK trade agreements, reducing supply chain risks, reducing vulnerability to food price shocks and impacts upon food affordability and nutritional content.

Finance - Ensuring businesses have access to capital and insurance including for adaptation, viable adaptation projects do not fail for lack of funding, and financial institutions incorporate physical risk into financial decision-making.

Protecting people from the health impacts of climate change and maximising any potential health benefits - The impact of climate change to people’s health and wellbeing and predicting and addressing climate-related changes to infectious diseases and mortality, counter-balancing discussions with the opportunity to realise potential mental and physical health benefits. Educational and workplace health and safety.

Quality and accessible health and social care delivery during extreme weather - Minimising weather disruption to primary and community care, hospitals and care home settings, and related services and supply chains, and on the health and wellbeing of the workforce, as well as emergency response planning.

Adapting our towns, cities and communities - Protecting towns, cities and communities from river, coastal, surface water & ground water flooding, ensuring coastal erosion management plans are in place and good condition of flood management assets and infrastructure, reducing risks to people and buildings from urban heat, maximising use of green and blue infrastructure / nature-based solutions and ensuring effective warning systems are in place.

Adapting new and existing residential & non-residential buildings - Preventing overheating and managing moisture risk, protecting buildings from flood and other climate-related risks, ensuring planning systems are developed to consider adaptation requirements and individuals understand how to address and mitigate risks, and aligning adaptation and decarbonisation policy to create whole system solutions.

Cultural heritage and historic environments – Managing risks to cultural assets and heritage (archaeological sites, buildings, historic landscapes, wrecks, museum, archive and library collections, folklore, traditional language, knowledge and practices etc), and ensuring regulations and standards support the protection and appropriate conservation of heritage assets.