Scenarios developed to help the rail industry plan for climate change

UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board has developed a standardised set of climate change scenarios to enable the industry to take a consistent approach to risk assessments, asset design and strategic planning.

The projections based on different scenarios for greenhouse gas emissions set out how hot summer temperatures might be, the frequency of intense storms or heavy rainfall and how quickly sea levels might rise along coastal tracks.

The primary agreed scenarios are:

• RCP 6.0. Ali…