A new National Heat Risk Commission is being created to investigate how to improve efforts across the UK to tackle the wide-ranging impacts of high temperatures, it was announced today (23 March 2026). The new Commission will be based at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and chaired by Emma Howard Boyd CBE, the former Chair of the Environment Agency and London Climate Resilience Review, commissioned by the Mayor of London. Howard Boyd has been appointed a…
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