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FUTURE-DRAINAGE (Webinar)

FUTURE-DRAINAGE (Webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Programme Webinar Series 2021 Date: 24 November, 1-3pm (GMT) Speakers: Professor Hayley Fowler (University of Newcastle), Lizzie Kendon (UK Met Office), Murray Dale (JBA) and Xiaodong Ming (Loughborough University) Chair: Professor Suraje...

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COP26 climate resilience events related to UKCR projects

COP26 climate resilience events related to UKCR projects

Friday 5 November (1-2 pm GMT): Tracking a moving target: How to measure progress and policy effectiveness in adapting to climate change Register to attend: https://oecd-events.org/cop26/session/451a6605-f027-ec11-ae72-a04a5e7d345e The UK Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)...

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COP26 hybrid event: Building climate resilience in a low carbon world

COP26 hybrid event: Building climate resilience in a low carbon world

Wednesday 10th November 2021 at 18.00-19.00 COP26, Glasgow: IPCC-WMO-UKMO Pavilion Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/c/MetOfficeScienceandServices Even in a low carbon world we will need to prepare for the unavoidable impacts of a changing climate by building resilience....

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COP26 Virtual Session: Using Spatial Data to Quantify Risk and to Inform Improvements in Climate Resilience

COP26 Virtual Session: Using Spatial Data to Quantify Risk and to Inform Improvements in Climate Resilience

8 November, 10.00-12.00,  Space & Geospatial Virtual Pavilion for COP26 Speakers: Andrew Charlton-Perez (University of Reading); Alistair Ford (Newcastle University); Susanna Kankaanpää (City of Helsinki); Rachel Perks (Met Office); Jon Stenning (Cambridge Econometrics) Curated by...

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UK Climate Resilience Programme at COP26

UK Climate Resilience Programme at COP26

The UK Climate Resilience Programme (UKCR) team is at the UN climate change conference COP26  (31 October-12 November 2021) – with co-Champion Dr Kate Lonsdale and steering committee member Ben Smith both travelling to Glasgow...

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Enhanced future FLows and Groundwater (eFLaG): enhancing the resilience of the water sector to drought events (webinar)

Enhanced future FLows and Groundwater (eFLaG): enhancing the resilience of the water sector to drought events (webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Programme Webinar Series 2021 Date: 17 November, 12.00pm (GMT) Speaker: Jamie Hannaford (UK Centre for Hydrology and Ecology) with a stakeholder response from Stuart Allen (Environment Agency) Chair: Mark Harrison See links...

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UK Government Approaches for Domestic Adaptation and Resilience (Webinar)

UK Government Approaches for Domestic Adaptation and Resilience (Webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Programme Webinar Series 2021 Date: 13 October, 12.00pm (BST) Speakers: Andrew Carr and Chris Bishop (DEFRA) Chair: Suraje Dessai See links to a video of the webinar and slides below Abstract The UK Government...

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Road to COP26 climate resilience events

Road to COP26 climate resilience events

An archive of events relating to climate resilience in the lead up to COP26 in November is available below. See UK Climate Resilience Programme at COP26 for our news story about climate resilience events connected to...

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Coastal Defender (Webinar)

Coastal Defender (Webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Programme Webinar Series 2021 Date: 29 September, 12.00pm (BST) Speaker: Rachel Perks (Met Office) Chair: Jason Lowe (Met Office) Abstract Sea level rise is going to have significant consequences for coastal communities...

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Climate Change Committee to hold webinars on UK Climate Change Risk Assessment

Climate Change Committee to hold webinars on UK Climate Change Risk Assessment

Action to improve the nation’s resilience is failing to keep pace with the impacts of a warming planet and increasing climate risks facing the UK. That is the conclusion of a comprehensive independent assessment led...

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UKCR authors contribute to IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report

UKCR authors contribute to IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report

The report of Working Group I (physical science basis) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) will be published at a press conference on 9 August 2021, following approval plenaries...

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