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New Met Office funding awards for UKCR

New Met Office funding awards for UKCR

Two new projects have been announced by the Met Office following open funding calls for the UK Climate Resilience programme in May 2019. The Climate services standards monitoring and valuing contract was awarded to JBA...

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UK-SSPs: socioeconomic trajectories for climate resilience research (webinar)

UK-SSPs: socioeconomic trajectories for climate resilience research (webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Webinars 2021 Date: 13 January 2021 Speaker:  Jon Stenning (Cambridge Econometrics);  stakeholder response from Paul Sayers  (Sayers & Partners) See links to videos of webinar and presenter slides below Abstract At the...

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Smart systems approaches for climate resilient livestock production (Webinar)

Smart systems approaches for climate resilient livestock production (Webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Programme Webinar Series Date: 2 December 2020, 12.00-13.00 Speaker: Professor Lisa Collins (University of Leeds), with a stakeholder response from Karro Food Group Ltd Chair: Dr Kate Lonsdale (co-Champion, UKCR) Abstract In...

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Urban climate change and climate services (Webinar)

Urban climate change and climate services (Webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Programme webinar series 16 December 2020, 12.00-13.00 Speakers: Claire Scannell and Lizzie Kendon (Met Office) Chair: Jason Lowe See below for links to presentation slides and webinar recordings  Abstract Cities are complex...

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Building UK climate resilience through bridging the qualitative-quantitative data divide (Webinar)

Building UK climate resilience through bridging the qualitative-quantitative data divide (Webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Programme webinar series 18 November 2020, 12.00-13.00 Speakers: Neil Macdonald (University of Liverpool, School of Environmental Sciences) Chair: Suraje Dessai Abstract The UK has witnessed several recent high magnitude floods, droughts and...

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Is the UK on track to adapt to climate change?

Is the UK on track to adapt to climate change?

The UK government, alongside others worldwide, has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero in an attempt to curb the consequences of climate change. But current global pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...

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Coastal Resilience to Flood and Erosion Hazard: A Demonstration for England (Webinar)

Coastal Resilience to Flood and Erosion Hazard: A Demonstration for England (Webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Programme webinar series 28 October 12.00-13.00 Speakers: Robert Nicholls (Tyndall Centre, UEA) and Charlotte Thompson (respondent) for the CoastalRes Consortium Abstract Resilience – or the ability to bounce back – is  often...

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Met Office climate scientist Jason Lowe awarded OBE

Met Office climate scientist Jason Lowe awarded OBE

Professor Jason Lowe, Head of Climate Services at the Met Office, is a world-leading expert in climate science. Professor Lowe, who is also Met Office Science Co-ordinator for the SPF UK Climate Resilience Programme, has...

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Launch of the first Embedded Researcher projects

Launch of the first Embedded Researcher projects

The UK Climate Resilience Programme is pleased to announce the commencement of the first set of Embedded Researcher projects. Following a call earlier in the year for researchers to apply for opportunities in non-academic host...

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Forecasting risk of environmental exacerbation of dissolved organic matter – building climate change resilience (Webinar)

Forecasting risk of environmental exacerbation of dissolved organic matter – building climate change resilience (Webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Programme webinar series 4 November 2020, 12.00-13.00 Speakers: Don Monteith (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) and Fraser Leith (Scottish Water) Chair: Suraje Dessai See links below for slides and webinar recording Abstract...

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Characterising and adapting to climate risks in the UK wine sector (Webinar)

Characterising and adapting to climate risks in the UK wine sector (Webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Programme webinar series 21 October 2020, 12.00-13.00 Speakers: Declan Conway (Grantham Research Institute, LSE) with Dr Alistair Nesbitt (Vinescapes), Dr Kate Gannon (GRI), Prof Steve Dorling (University of East Anglia) Chair: Suraje...

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