Transcript The UK Climate Impacts Programme

Planning for Future Weather and Climate
East Midlands
Planning for Future Weather and Climate
Briefing Event: Nottingham
28th February 2011
[email protected]
Gerry Metcalf
Knowledge Transfer Manager
UK Climate Impacts Programme
The UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)
“Helps organisations to assess how they might be affected by climate
change, so that they can prepare for its impacts”.
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Set up by UK Government in 1997
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Funded by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
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Based at University of Oxford
Works through:
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Stakeholder-led research
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Partnerships
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Programmes, and
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Capacity building
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Common tools/datasets (free)
UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)
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The UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) helps organisations to
adapt to inevitable climate change.
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Since 1997 UKCIP has been working with the public, private and
voluntary sectors to assess how a changing climate will affect:
construction, working practices, demand for goods and services,
biodiversity, service delivery, spatail planning, health, local authorities,
central government, transport, waste, business, etc
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Warmer temperatures, heavier rainfall, rising sea levels: our website can
help you plan to adapt, so that you can prepare for negative impacts, and
take advantage of any positive ones.
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All our tools and services are freely available.
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Contact for spatial planning:
[email protected]
Aims for today
to identify the specific wants and needs of spatial planners in the East Midlands
wrt adapting to changing weather and climate
in order to:
inform the development of a support programme to be funded by the EM RIEP
Proposed support programme can include:
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One-to-one support for individual authorities
Support for clusters of (neighbouring or thematic) authorities
Workshop programme
Publications on selected topics
Others
Programme for today
• Aims: Project context ? Those present ?
• Policy Context: In a policy vacuum what should we do?
• Other strategic questions to be answered
Spatial scales
Target Audiences
Style
Content
Others
Existing materials to support spatial planners
• Workshop: Consider alternative approaches
• Summary and Next Steps
The story so far……….
Consider the support needs of spatial planners
in dealing with
Adaptation to changing climate and weather
UKCIP and partners (TCPA, CABE, RTPI, POS, etc) prompted by national RIEPs
leading to
UKCIP and partners in support of RIEPs in EM
workshops held to map material that is already available
identifies
gaps that need to be filled
Leading to
Further work on what identifying what practicing planners need/want
Changing Policy context
o Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) – First Adaptation Report
o CBI – Adaptation Report
o Demise of NI188
o Demise of RDAs, and GOs
o Future of LSPs?
o Role of LEPs
o Demise of Statutory Spatial Planning framework
o Demise of Regional Planning
o New localism
o Big Society
o Others?
Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) report – Sept 2010
Identifies five adaptation priorities for UK:
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Land use planning
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Providing national infrastructure
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Designing and renovating buildings
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Managing natural resources
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Emergency planning
Many of which are relevant to D4FC
CBI report September 2010
Recommendations for Business
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Include climate risks in business risks assessment
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Adaptation strategies – sustainable and direct cost benefits
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Risk evaluations: supply chains; assets; operations, markets, regulation, reputation
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Climate exposure made explicit in corporate reporting
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Share adaptation information to achieve consistency
Recommendations for Government
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Present UKCP09 as ‘best available prediction’ for non-climate specialists
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Provide public information on climate risks to critical public infrastructure
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Climate Change Risk Assessment orchestrate climate adaptation across regulated sectors, the
planning process, and public infrastructure procurement
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Consistent approach across regulatory authorities to support firms to adapt public infrastructure to
long-term climate risk
LCLIP Process
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Media Search (local and national press)
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Interviews with key officers
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Collating data
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Analysing Data
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Sharing findings
Typical Outputs
Executive summary containing headline messages:
Report including:
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Summary of data analysis
Case studies of significant events
Record of extreme weather events over past 5 to 10 years
Evidence of consequences for:
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Agencies
Workloads
Budgets
Service delivery
Reputation
etc
Recommended next steps:
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Monitoring
‘place-shaping’ agenda links to ‘localism’ agenda
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Weather and climate are local phenomena
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Impacts and consequences of weather are even more local
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Local preparedness reduces local vulnerability
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People tend to identify with ’place’ rather than institutions
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Community can become involved in increasing local resilience
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Re-generation of existing neighbourhoods creates high profile
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What adaptation can be done by owner occupier? tenant?
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What adaptation can be done by private sector? business? SMEs?
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What adaptation can be done by LSP? LEP partners? Third sector?
Strategic Questions: Policy Vacuum
Policy Context: In a policy vacuum what should we do?
Possible responses
• wait until it is all sorted out
• concentrate on principles which can then be applied in whatever new
frameworks emerge
• seek to influence policy
• others
Strategic Questions: Spatial Scales
Is spatial scale a useful and significant framework ?
Possible spatial scales
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Regional (sub-regional)
Urban (conurbation)
Rural (countryside)
Neighbourhood
Individual Buildings
Are these appropriate and useful classifications ?
Any others ?
Any improvements in titles ?
Strategic Questions: target beneficiaries
Who should be the audience or beneficiary of any support ?
Different outputs can be targeted to different audiences
Are planning officers to be the principal beneficiaries ?
Other beneficiaries ?
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Developers, architects, building owners, etc ?
Other officers ?
Elected members ?
Community ?
Is there any difference in requirements for unitary and district authorities ?
Strategic Questions: style and format
Is there any preferred style and format for publications ?
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• Electronic ?
• Web-based ?
• Other ?
Is there any preferred style and format for events, workshops, etc ?
• Venues ?
• Timing ?
• Structure ?
Strategic Questions: Content
There is a wide range of subject matter that could be covered
but also many different ways
in which subject matter can be organised and structured.
Some of the alternative approaches are presented in a worksheet.
Please work through these in small groups
indicating your preferences and any other comments.
Are there any other topics for consideration ?
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Different ways of structuring the content ?
National Planning Policy Framework Consultation
http://communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/planningsystem/planningpolicy/plannin
gpolicyframework/
The Minister has invited organisations and individuals to offer their suggestions to the
Department on what priorities and policies we might adopt to produce a shorter, more
decentralised and less bureaucratic National Planning Policy Framework.
Please send your suggestions, by 28 February 2011, to:
[email protected]
or
Alan Scott
National Planning Policy Framework
Department for Communities and Local Government
Zone 1/H6
Eland House
London SW1E 5DU
Today is the last day for responses
Next Steps
www.ukcip.org.uk