Northwest Projections in Practise Training Week 5th-9th October 2009
In June 2009, the UK Climate Projections 09, funded by DEFRA, were launched as a freely accessible online resource offering the most advanced projections of future climate change.
Working with the UK Climate Impacts Programme, the government's single organisation for tackling climate change adaptation, the Northwest delivered a week-long series of training events in the use of the new projections. These have enabled participants to understand how to use the web interface, how to interpret the outputs and how the projections will help them better understand how climate change may impact on existing risks to their activites.
PiP Launch...
The week was launched with a morning of speakers and discussion
at County Hall, Preston. All presentations are available to
download below.
Welcome and Introduction
Tony Dean, Regional Director, Environment Agency and
Chair of NW Adaptation Group
National Adaptation Policy Context
Kathryn Packer, Deputy Director, Adapting to Climate Change
Programme, DEFRA
Introduction and overview of UK Climate Projections
2009
Kay Jenkinson, Communications Manager, UK Climate
Impacts Programme
(Warning - large file size - may take time to download)
Climate Risk Management in the Natural
Environment
Sarah Robinson, Natural England
Case Studies:
· Using the UK 09 projections in a Local Authority
Andy Mullaney, LCC
(Warning - large file size - may take time to download)
· Water resources planning based on climate
projections
Richard Critchley, Water Supply Demand Manager, United
Utilities
Training Sessions:
Each of the 7 UKCP09 user-interface training sessions was opened by Tim Daley, the NW Adaptation Coordinator. Download Tim's presentation here.
The hands-on user interface training was led by Malcolm Chandler and Tom Wilson of UKCIP. To view their training slides please click here.
We were fortunate during the health-sector focussed training session to be given a presentation by Helen Hunt of the Department for Health detailing mitigation activities in the sector. Download Helen's talk here.
Business Advisors Training Workshop with UKCIP:
On Friday 9th October, the region hosted a day-long training workshop in partnership with ENWORKS, the region's central business advisory service on climate change adaptation for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and UKCIP.
The event began with a series of talks, with Paul Needham detailing work that has been undertaken to better understand the risks posed by climate change, Melanie Tapodi describing the work of ENWORKS and the Groundwork Trusts and Alex Moczarski and Mark Goldthorpe on the UKCIP tools for Businesses and their advisors.
Download Paul Needham's talk here
Download Melanie's talk here
Download the UKCIP presentation here
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