Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
23 June 2026
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee House of Commons
00:02 - 01:17
Speaker 3
Order, order. Good morning everybody and welcome to this meeting of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee. We return today to our inquiry into climate adaptation and emergency response. And given that we're sitting here with an amber warning today and red weather warnings for tomorrow and Thursday, it has turned out to be seasonal and timely. As you will know, there are normal expectations about the standards of dress in Parliament.
I, however, as chair, have some discretion and I will exercise that discretion in the favor of comfort. So, please, if you want to take off your jacket, tie, well, within the boundaries, within the boundaries of decency, we can exercise that discretion. Welcome to the Select Committee. Just for the benefit of our own official record and for those who might be following our proceedings, can I invite you all please to introduce yourselves to the committee? Rob, we'll start with, or Professor Howard Boyd, then Emma, can you go?
01:17 - 01:42
Speaker 4
Well, thank you, thank you. And I feel like a living manifestation of the heatwave. I've just come over from the City of London and the tube isn't working, so I've had to walk. I'm Emma Howard Boyd. I am chair of the National Heat Risk Commission.
I led the London Climate Resilience Review for the Mayor of London, and I'm a former chair of the Environment Agency. Thank you.
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