RAPA Toolkit now featured in updated Met Office Local Authority Climate Service and MACC Hub
The Rapid Adaptation Pathways Assessment (RAPA) Toolkit, developed by ADEPT in partnership with the Environment Agency, has now been incorporated into the Met Office's updated Local Authority Climate Service (LACS) and is also available via the MACC Hub. This is a significant milestone for the toolkit, making it more accessible than ever to local authorities planning for climate change impacts across the UK.
What is the RAPA Toolkit?
Launched in May 2025, the RAPA Toolkit helps local authorities plan for and manage climate change impacts - particularly flood and coastal erosion risks. It provides a structured, framework for undertaking adaptation pathways assessments with stakeholders, supporting flexible, long-term decision-making under climate uncertainty. The approach is widely recognised as global best practice in adaptation planning.
At its core, the toolkit helps local authorities answer two key questions: whether climate change impacts are making current assets or services inefficient or redundant, and what the best options are for continuing to meet their objectives.
By working through these questions at different levels of climate impact, authorities can build sequences of actions, or 'pathways', that keep them on track through to 2100.
RAPA on the Met Office Local Authority Climate Service
LACS is a free MET Office tool, providing higher‑resolution climate data, sub‑local authority insights and UK‑wide sea level rise information, helping local authorities better understand and communicate climate risks.
The MACC Hub is a UK Research and Innovation and Defra co-funded initiative providing a comprehensive framework to strengthen the UK's resilience to climate impacts.
The addition of the RAPA Toolkit onto both platforms means local authorities now have both the climate data and the decision-making framework they need to plan effectively for the future, in one place.
- Find the RAPA Toolkit on LACS
- Find the RAPA toolkit on the MACC Hub
- Find out more about the LACS update
