{"id":31,"date":"2014-08-04T14:54:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T13:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:57:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:57:39","slug":"how-you-can-prepare","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/preparing-for-change\/how-you-can-prepare","title":{"rendered":"How you can prepare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every resident, visitor and business can take simple actions to improve their resilience to a changing climate.<\/p>\n<h2>Individuals<\/h2>\n<p>As an individual, you can find out how to help protect you and your family from heat waves by taking advice from the <a title=\"NHS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/Livewell\/Summerhealth\/Pages\/Heatwave.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NHS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advice on action to take before, during and after flood events is available from the Devon County Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/emergencies\/severe-weather\/flooding\/\">Flood Emergencies<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n<h2>Businesses<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s important that businesses identify how the likely changes in climate will affect their operations and put plans in place to enhance their resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Why not complete the free <a title=\"Business Resilience Health Check\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessresiliencehealthcheck.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Resilience Health Check?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tool was developed in partnership with Business in the Community, Climate UK and Climate Ready to help businesses become more resilient to the risks they will face both now and in the future and ensure that they can continue to operate as usual in the face of potential disruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every resident, visitor and business can take simple actions to improve their resilience to a changing climate. Individuals As an individual, you can find out how to help protect you and your family from heat waves by taking advice from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/preparing-for-change\/how-you-can-prepare\" aria-label=\"Continue reading How you can prepare\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"featured_media":52,"parent":29,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 15:15:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/1611"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}