14466 National Trust (Annual Report 2022) ARTWORK2

33 Climate and environment Climate change is nowwidely acknowledged as one of the most important issues facing society and the National Trust has recognised climate impacts as the biggest risk to its purpose of protecting places of beauty, nature and history for everyone, for ever. Damage caused by climate change to the places we look after is no longer theoretical; it is now considered as a high probability risk and so we have plans and resources allocated to mitigate climate change and the impact it may have on our places and processes. Although we have been talking about howwe are tackling climate change in our Annual Report for many years, this is the first year the Trust has begun to formally align its reporting to the requirements of the Taskforce for Climate related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), reflecting the growing importance of these disclosures for all organisations. Where we do not fully meet the requirements of TCFD, we have indicated any future action we intend to take to ensure that we do so.