Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)·Page 48·5.6.3
Belfast's environmental change impacts and resilience requirements
Belfast has experienced severe weather events and flooding causing harm to people, property, infrastructure, and habitats. The policy promotes mitigation and adaptation to environmental change to fulfill sustainability commitments rather than leaving the city vulnerable.
Belfast has already experienced the impacts of environmental change with severe weather events, and flooding, which has harmed people, property, infrastructure, the economy, habitats and species. To leave the city vulnerable without mitigating or adapting to future environmental changes is a high risk strategy and financially expensive. The policy promotes mitigation and adaptation to environmental change to fulfil its sustainability commitments.
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