Recommendation 5

We recommend that the Government formalises collaboration between CNI regulators on climate adaptation, through a statutory forum chaired by a senior Government official (at Director General level), with key operators invited to meetings. This forum should publish an annual report to Parliament on key actions to address interdependencies and to enhance CNI resilience to climate change and extreme weather, utilising data and intelligence from the CNI Knowledge Base. The Government should also make use of the power granted by the Climate Change Act 2008 to require CNI operators and/or regulators to report jointly under the Adaptation Reporting Power.