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EU Structural and Investment Funds 2014-20
Climate Change and Environmental
Protection
SWOT Workshop
Martin Budd, Hull City Council
Nadine Senior, Hull & East Yorkshire Local Nature Partnership
EU Structural and Investment Funds 2014-20
Thematic Objective 5
Climate Change
Strategic Context
• Climate Change Act
• National Adaptation Programme
• Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy
• National Heat Wave Plan
Key Principles
• Strengthening economic development through wider
adaptation and Resilience
• Enabling economic development through investment in
flood and coastal risk management
Proposed Duel Approach
o Set out how adaptive actions will be promoted in
strategies through,
 Ensure that all future economic growth is resilient to
climate change and its impacts
o Include targeted and proportionate SIF investment in measures
to enable growth by managing flood and coastal risks through,
 Aligning and matching with domestic funding and policies
to ensure that growth is sustainable
Integrate Adaptation
• Support opportunities to evolve adaptation goods,
services and markets
• Help businesses and organisations make well-informed
decisions to manage their risk
• Inform and support assessment of climate change risk
impacts and adaptive measures into policy and
investment decision-making
Increasing Flood and Coastal Risk
• Ensure that growth, and development to accommodate
it, is robust to increasing risks and does not transfer or
defer risks to others
• That achievement of sustainable growth is not
constrained by climate risks
• Investment that enables growth through managing
increasing flood and coastal risk complements domestic
policy and funding mechanisms
EU Structural and Investment Funds 2014-20
Thematic Objective 6
Environmental Protection and
Resource Efficiency
Strategic Context
Preliminary LEP guidance: priorities
1. Investment in resource efficiency measures that
improve business performance.
2. Promoting innovative technologies that address
environmental protection and resource efficiency for
businesses and communities.
3. Actions to promote ecosystem services that support
growth and jobs.
4. Investment in green infrastructure to support
sustainable economic development.
1. Investment in resource efficiency measures
that improve business performance.
Research commissioned by Defra and published in March 2011
indicated that £23bn per annum could be saved through no/low cost
actions to reduce waste and by using energy and resources more
efficiently.
resources
Business operations
products
reduce, reuse, recycle
services
2. Promoting innovative technologies that address
environmental protection and resource efficiency for
businesses and communities.
Eco Innovation - new products and services with lower impacts on the
environment and improved resource efficiency.
Improves business competitiveness and addresses environmental protection
issues.
Knowledge transfer
Business operations
resources
reduce, reuse, recycle
Eco-innovation
products
services
3. Actions to promote ecosystem services that
support growth and jobs.
Ecosystem services provide the raw materials for industry and provides the
processes that purify air and water and breakdown wastes.
Knowledge transfer
Ecosystem Services
resources
Business operations
reduce, reuse, recycle
Eco-innovation
products
services
4. Investment in green infrastructure to
support sustainable economic development.
Green infrastructure refers to the living network of green spaces, water
and other environmental features in urban, rural and maritime areas.
Attracts investment and employment –e.g. new recreational routes can
bring significant benefits to a local economy.
Knowledge transfer
Ecosystem Services
resources
Business operations
reduce, reuse, recycle
Eco-innovation
products
services
SWOT WORKSHOP
• Undertake a SWOT on each theme, thinking in particular of the
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the
Humber area
• 2 tables will each discuss a theme;
– Climate change adaptation
– Flood risk and coastal erosion
– Environmental protection
• 1st session will last an hour
• Comfort break (15 min). Move onto a different table for 2nd
session lasting 25 minutes
• 3rd session discussion of links with other thematic objectives
• Conclusions, next steps etc.
• There is a facilitator on each table to help you