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Understanding heat related mortality (Webinar)

Understanding heat related mortality (Webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Programme webinar series 7 October 2020, 12.00-13.00 Speakers: Andrew Charlton-Perez (University of Reading)/Mark Harrison (Met Office) Chair: Jason Lowe Abstract As climate changes, the risks to human health posed by extremes of...

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Webinar: Engaging the public on climate risk and adaptation: Public perceptions in the context of COVID

Webinar: Engaging the public on climate risk and adaptation: Public perceptions in the context of COVID

Thursday 8 October, 10.00-11.30 BST Register for the webinar Adaptation Scotland are co-hosting a webinar with Climate Outreach and researchers from Cardiff University’s ‘Understanding Risk’ team on ‘Engaging the public on climate risk and adaptation...

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Statistical analysis and attribution of impact relevant climate extremes (Webinar)

Statistical analysis and attribution of impact relevant climate extremes (Webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Programme webinar series 23 September 2020 Speakers: Simon Brown / Daniel Cotterill (Met Office), stakeholder response by Tom Butcher (Met Office business group) Chair: Suraje Dessai Past – see link to recording...

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Understanding UK perceptions of climate risk and resilience (Webinar)

Understanding UK perceptions of climate risk and resilience (Webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Programme webinar series 9 September 2020, 12.00-13.00 Speakers: Prof Nick Pidgeon with Christina Demski (both Cardiff University) with stakeholder response by Frances Pimenta, Head of Climate Adaptation Policy, Defra Chair: Kate Lonsdale...

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Stormy weather and estuary flooding projects funded in climate hazard call

Stormy weather and estuary flooding projects funded in climate hazard call

Projects researching climate hazards in the UK have been awarded a total of £700,000 by the SPF UK Climate Resilience Programme.   The Present and Future Climate Hazard call, offered through UKRI (NERC), will develop and evaluate new methods and techniques to characterise current and future...

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Funding opportunity: High impact storylines and scenarios for risk assessment and planning

Funding opportunity: High impact storylines and scenarios for risk assessment and planning

A new funding opportunity has been announced by the SPF UK Climate Resilience Programme, through the Met Office tendering on behalf of the Dept of BEIS. Expressions of interest from UK researchers are being sought...

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New projects seek to understand and learn from living with climate uncertainty

New projects seek to understand and learn from living with climate uncertainty

Three UK projects exploring how societies have understood and adapted to climate change in the past – and how we can learn from them to become more resilient to the impacts of future climate change...

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UKCR Summer Newsletter published

UKCR Summer Newsletter published

The UK Climate Resilience Programme Summer Newsletter is out! In this edition: UKCR webinar series – dates added to 2021 Project spotlight: Development and provision of UK socioeconomic scenarios (UK-SSPs) Results from ten initial UKCR...

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UKCR funded Met Office projects: newly available outputs

UKCR funded Met Office projects: newly available outputs

The Climate Resilience Programme’s project list includes several work packages led by the Met Office. As these have progressed over the last several months, we are now able to share project reports on the website. The...

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Creating climate resilience in the UK: What does this mean, and how might we achieve it? (Webinar)

Creating climate resilience in the UK: What does this mean, and how might we achieve it? (Webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Programme webinar series  Wednesday 8 July 12.00-13.00 Speakers: Dr Kate Lonsdale, UK Climate Resilience Champion, and Tom Hughes, Senior Policy Advisor, National Infrastructure Commission Register for the webinar    Abstract: Resilience is an...

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IMPRES: Impacts and risk assessment to better inform resilience planning (webinar)

IMPRES: Impacts and risk assessment to better inform resilience planning (webinar)

UK Climate Resilience Programme webinar series 22 July 12.00-13.00 Speakers: Prof Rachel Warren (Tyndall Centre, UEA), Alan Kennedy-Asser (University of Bristol) and Jeff Price (Tyndall Centre, UEA), with a response by  Gemma Holmes (Committee on...

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