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Protecting our capital: How climate adaptation in cities creates a resilient place for business
Posted on: 22 July 2014
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The latest Carbon Displacement Project report also flags the significant opportunity for collaboration between city governments and business to improve climate resilience. The benefits that business brings to cities, including jobs, tax revenue and services, are one of the drivers for cities to improve their climate resilience. Similarly, businesses are reliant on public infrastructure and environmental policies to support and guide their operations. This report shows how cooperation between cities and businesses leads to better resilience city-wide. Both sectors can benefit from a greater understanding of each otherâs climate change risks, and companies can help reduce city-wide risks by embedding local adaptation needs within their business operations.
Urban areas as systems: adapting for the future. Birmingham, 10-11 June 2014
Posted on: 14 July 2014
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The ARCC network (Adaptation and Resilience in the Context of Change) is hosted within UKCIP and brings together research projects with a specific focus on built environment and infrastructure in the UK. the ARCC Assembly explored issues and challenges arising from research to promote a well-adapted and resilient built environment and infrastructure network. Over 120 participants heard from a variety of speakers: from European, national and local policy makers, from practitioners; and from researchers working on a diverse portfolio of research projects. Topics covered included citizensâ aspirations, handling disruption to transport systems, indoor air quality and maintaining energy supply systems. The ARCC website contains presentations and video from individual sessions, while blogs provide personal perspectives on discussions.
Managing climate risks to well-being and the economy
Posted on: 14 July 2014
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This report is part of a series by the Adaptation Sub-Committee of the Committee on Climate Change assessing preparations for the major risks and opportunities from climate change in England. The report follows on from those in previous years on the built and natural environments, to focus on the implications of climate change for the economy and public wellbeing. It also provides an update on flooding and flood risk management. It is the last annual report before the ASCâs first statutory report to Parliament in July 2015 on the progress being made in preparing the country for climate change.
Climate change, water and agriculture: Towards resilient systems
Posted on: 2 July 2014
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This report reviews the main linkages between climate change, water and agriculture as a means to identifying and discussing adaptation strategies for better use and conservation of water resources.
Future-proofing society: Why planners need to be at the forefront of responses to climate change and demographic change
Posted on: 24 June 2014
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This is the second in a series of five âbig pictureâ papers (branded âPlanning Horizonsâ) published by the RTPI. The focus in this paper is on three aspects of climate, extreme weather, water provision and energy supply, and three aspects of demographic change, population growth, ageing populations and social cohesion.
Progress and challenges in the urban governance of climate change: Results of a global survey
Posted on: 18 June 2014
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An increasing number of cities around the world now include preparations for climate change in their basic urban planning, but only a small portion of them have been able to make such plans part of their economic development priorities, according to a unique global survey of cities. The Urban Climate Change Governance Survey is based on responses from 350 cities worldwide.
Climate change: Implications for the energy sector
Posted on: 18 June 2014
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A briefing published jointly by the World Energy Council (WEC), the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), the Cambridge Judge Business School, and the European Climate Foundation, brings into sharp focus the energy-related findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report for policymakers and business leaders in the energy sector. It identifies the need to incorporate climate change mitigation and adaptation measures into energy policy making, infrastructure planning, and investment decisions.
Why use old data for new buildings?
Posted on: 13 June 2014
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Arup recently partnered with climate consultancy Argos Analytics to create the WeatherShif application, which projects future weather patterns for specific sites based on climate models run for the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
Catastrophe modelling and climate change
Posted on: 11 June 2014
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Against a background of more frequent severe weather events, such as floods and windstorms, a new report from Lloydâs highlights the importance of insurers ensuring that their catastrophe modelling tools keep pace with the effects of climate change. Produced by Lloydâs Exposure Management & Reinsurance team, this report explains how the insurance industry increasingly relies on computerised âprobabilisticâ catastrophe models from different providers to manage their catastrophe risk exposures. Through a series of case studies contributed by academics and third party vendor experts, the Lloydâs report looks at how todayâs catastrophe models account for climate change.
Climate change adaptation manual: evidence to support nature conservation in a changing climate
Posted on: 5 June 2014
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Natural England and the RSPB, in partnership with the Environment Agencyâs Climate Ready Support Service and the Forestry Commission have published a new resource for conservation practitioners. The manual is a hands-on document giving up-to-date, detailed, habitat-specific information for conservation managers to use, to prepare and respond to a changing climate. It is divided into three sections, focusing on: the key concepts for making decisions about adaptation and the impact of climate change on the natural environment; climate change impacts and potential adaptation responses for 27 of Englandâs most important habitats; and the relationship between climate change and the delivery of ecosystem services.
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