UPCOMING EVENTS

Resilience of UK National Infrastructure

• 2026
• The Royal Society and online

Recent events have shown the damage that can be done when there is a lack of resilience in national infrastructure. From a fire at a substation closing Heathrow, to flooding affecting the electricity grid and IT and telecoms issues (accidental or cybercrime) leading to shutdowns. This is not just a UK problem, as we saw when much of Spain and Portugal lost power for a short period in 2025. What are the key threats to our national infrastructure? And how can technology help us understand those threats better, and protect us against them?

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Enhancing the UK’s preparedness and resilience to climate change

• 2026
• The Royal Society and online

The impacts of climate change are already being felt in the UK, and we can see the costs of inaction on growth, security, and health. Coordinated climate adaptation action is needed now to ensure the resilience of the UK to increasing climate-related shocks.   The Council for Science and Technology (CST), the government’s top-level advisory body on science and technology issues, wrote to the Prime Minister on 28th October 2025, providing advice on climate adaptation and resilience for the UK.   In this event we will discuss priorities for climate adaptation action in the UK, the development of climate adaptation targets and will be an opportunity to dive deeper into CST’s four recommendations.  

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