Transcript 02_Clim - Northern Periphery Programme

Sustainable tourism, Greenland
Climate Change –
Adapting to The Impacts, by Communities in Northern Peripheral Regions
Clive Bowman
Clim-ATIC project coordinator
Centre for Mountain Studies
Perth College
UHI Millennium Institute
[email protected]
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A Project part-financed by the European Union and the
European Regional Development Fund
Clim-ATIC is a 2.35 Million Euro,
transnational project that aims to result in
the best possible understanding of all
issues associated with
climate change adaptation at a
community level for northern regions
It is part funded by the European Regional
Development Fund’s Northern Periphery
Programme 2007 - 2013.
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A Project part-financed by the European Union and the
European Regional Development Fund
Risk response management, Norway
Clim-ATIC project overview
The project will establish a sustainable,
self-financing delivery mechanism to
provide information, training and
advice on climate change adaptation
to communities,
small businesses, and local
administrations across the Northern
Periphery.
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A Project part-financed by the European Union and the
European Regional Development Fund
Sustainable tourism, Greenland
Clim-ATIC’s overall objective
1.
the different concerns within a community, a sector
or a stakeholder group
2.
communication techniques and methods
3.
the indirect consequences of climate change on a
local community
4.
the challenge for politicians and policy makers to
plan locally when faced with uncertainty and cross
border issues
5.
how local societies themselves can define the risks
related to change because adaptation
6.
how societies can build effective adaptive capacity
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Sustainable energy, Norway
We will learn and understand more about…..
How will we do this?
Enable community stakeholders to make informed adaptation decisions
Support communities to deliver real adaptations that provide local economic
and social advantages
Explore a range of themes and involve stakeholders from a range of
community and government levels
Exchange ideas, experience and good practice between communities, small
businesses, and local administrations
Disseminate knowledge through exchange visits, regional seminars, and at
least one international conference
Maximise engagement and participation with land owners, local businesses,
community groups, local politicians, and regional and national decisionmakers
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A Project part-financed by the European Union and the
European Regional Development Fund
5 participating regions with similar climate change impact issues
Uummannaq
Rovaniemi,
Illulissat
Kittilä and Kolari,
Lapland
Iceland
County of
Vasterbotten, and Åre
Sisimiut
Flora, Sogn og
Fjordane
Faroe Islands
Glen Urquhart and the
Cairngorms National
Park
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A Project part-financed by the European Union and the
European Regional Development Fund
Clim-ATIC has 5 interlinked transnational workpackages
March
2008
1
Project
management,
coordination
&
communication
Regional Climate
Change knowledge
a2 and Scenarios
Identify community
climate adaptation
o3 opportunities
4
Adaptation
Demonstration
Projects
Establishment of a community Climate
change adaptation information, training &
advice service
5
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February
2011
A Project part-financed by the European Union and the
European Regional Development Fund
Clim-ATIC will focus on 4 key priority themes
Climate change adaptation cuts across all sectors and political levels.
risk and response management
local sustainable energy
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local sustainable transport choices
tourism opportunities
A Project part-financed by the European Union and the
European Regional Development Fund
Community Adaptation Demonstration Projects (WP4)
Planning, supporting, managing, evaluating and extracting lessons from 13 adaptation projects
sustainable
transport
sustainable energy
management
New tourism
opportunities
in Kittilä and Kolari
2
4
tourism
opportunities
Dog sledging on thin
ice in Sisimiut
Climate change tourism
education in Illulissat &
sustainable huts in
Kangerlussuaq
risk management
and response
GIS flood mapping
for development
planning in Rovaniemi
Fish waste to
Bio-gas in Uummannaq
Land slides and
public warning
system, Flora
1
Blue tooth ‘stay
and play’ project
at Cairngorm Mountain
4
Trial of EV for
community use
in Strathspey
2
Winter tourism and sustainable
transport project in Åre
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Wood fuel training for
local business in the
Cairngorms National Park
River restoration project
(sustainable flood
management)
Glen Urquhart
Adapting woodland
owners management
plans in Lycksele
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European Regional Development Fund
Clim-ATIC in Scotland
Building adaptation knowledge with communities:
1. Glen Urquhart/Drumnadrochit
2. Cairngorms National Park young people
Adaptation demonstration projects:
1. A community driven river restoration project in Glen Urquhart
2. An Electric Car to be use by a community transport group
3. Awareness raising, training and promotion for the Wood fuel industry in
the Cairngorms National Park
4. Exploring and selling alternative tourism opportunities/ activities to the
winter sports market in the Cairngorms
Project partners/funders:
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From February 2009 to June 2009, 7 primary
schools within the Cairngorms National Park are
each working on a project to investigate possible
climate change impacts and adaptations in their
communities. Each school has a separate theme
and will produce a short 10 minute film.
WP3
All 7 films will be shown as at film festival in Autumn
2009. Also the films will be shown at a proposed tourism
sector workshop planned for late 2009, leading to the
development of a sector specific adaptation strategy.
The residents of Glen Urquhart have already participated in one pilot
workshop in late 2008 to discuss climate change impacts. A larger
community wide workshop will be held in late 2009 using new UKCIP09 data
and a variety of visualisation methods to identify community adaptation
opportunities.
WP3
The Strathspey and Badenoch Community Transport
Company will demonstrate the shared community use
of a sustainably fuelled vehicle in a rural area. A
standard Vauxhall Astra is currently being converted
to 100% electric drive and will be delivered to the
community in April 2009. The car will also have a
trailer mounted wind turbine.
WP4
The electric car will be marketed and promoted at events,
and community users will evaluate its use in a rural area
over the next 18 months. It will be sold in February 2011.
A programme of awareness raising and training events has been set up
to support the establishment of the local wood fuel energy industry
in the Cairngorms National Park.
WP4
The first event is a Woodfuel Fair to be held at Alvie
Estate on 27th May 2009. The project will also support the
establishment of a Community Log Supply Chain.
The community group GULuP
based in Glenurquhart, has spent
the last 12 months building
relationships with various
stakeholders and getting
professional advice on river
restoration opportunities that will
reduce flood risk for the River
Enrick.
WP4
The project is now establishing a programme of partnership flood
prevention projects for the future, and will fund and manage a
small river restoration project themselves during 2009/10.
The 'Stay & Play' project aims to promote
alternative activities to the winter sports market in
the Cairngorms. As a pilot, consultants have been
commissioned to install 10-12 bluetooth devices
in and around the Aviemore area and market
them in time for the Easter period 2009. Tourism
businesses will get access to reports as well as
have the ability to interrogate data and carry out
adhoc insight analysis.
WP4
The service will be evaluated both from both tourist and
business ends, and Clim-ATIC will further support a more
comprehensive trial during the 2009/10 ski season.
Establish a Northern Periphery Community
Climate Change Adaptation Information,
Training, and Advice Service (WP5)
The UHI Millennium Institute together with the
University of the Arctic are leading this
workpackage.
A marketing consultant has been engaged to
provide support with the feasibility study to identify
target customers, appropriate content and
appropriate methods of delivery.
An online questionnaire will be widely distributed throughout April and
May 2009 to all NPP regions to gather this information from communities.
This will be fed into a workshop to be held at the 12th Council meeting of
the University of the Arctic in Kiruna, Sweden in August 2009.
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‘Innovatively investing in Europe’s Northern Periphery for a sustainable and prosperous future’
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A Project part-financed by the European Union and the
European Regional Development Fund