Amendment summary
Lord Teverson moved amendment 131, in Schedule 1, page 40, line 16, at end to insert: "The Climate Change Adaptation Sub-Committee. 15A (1) The Committee must establish a sub-committee to be known as the Climate Change Adaptation Sub-Committee (referred to in this Part as "the Adaptation Sub-Committee"). (2) The Adaptation Sub-Committee shall be chaired by a member of the Climate Change Committee and shall otherwise consist of persons who are not members of the Committee. (3) In appointing a member of the Adaptation Sub-Committee, the Secretary of State must have regard to the desirability of securing that the Adaptation Sub-Committee (taken as a whole) has expert experience in or knowledge of the following— (a) climate change science and other branches of environmental science; (b) contingency planning; (c) ecology and biodiversity; (d) economics; (e) flood risk; (f) infrastructure asset management; (g) public health; (h) risk management; (i) international development; and (j) any other significant adaptations required to address the risks identified in the most recent report under section 48."