Posted: Posted October 12, 2021 / 6:06 pm CDT / Has been updated: October 12, 2021 / 6:06 pm CDT

London (AP) — Government agencies said Wednesday that if the country does not improve its defenses against the more extreme weather caused by climate change, it will be hit hard by floods that devastated Germany this summer. rice field.

In the report, the Environment Agency warned of hotter and drier summers, worsening floods, rising sea levels, and greater demand for water supplies due to global warming.

Even if global average temperatures rise by 2 degrees Celsius and fall below projected levels of warming, winter rainfall in England will increase by 6%, but summer rainfall will decrease by 15% by the 2050s. It was predicted that.

The report also warned that London’s sea level is expected to rise by 23 to 29 centimeters (9 to 11 inches) by the 2050s and by about 45 centimeters by the 2080s.

Agency chair Emma Howard Boyd said that “significant climate impacts are inevitable,” which is the case of “adapt or die.”

“We can tackle climate emergencies well if we do the right thing, but we don’t have the time to implement effective adaptation measures,” she said.

“Adaptive behavior needs to be essential to governments, businesses and communities, and people will soon wonder why it isn’t.

The UK will host the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month, and authorities will emphasize the importance of helping communities adapt to climate change. But Howard Boyd said the issue was still at risk of being ignored.

The warning appears in the Environment Agency’s third adaptation report submitted to the government under the Climate Change Act.