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Sustainable Cities Workshop presentations and report available

The Sniffer / SEPA Sustainable Cities Workshop held on the 22 February concluded that a more collaborative focus is needed in the following areas;
• Transport + travel
• Ecological Networks
• Infrastructure
• Energy & Buildings & retrofit
• Procurement + contracts
• Social inclusiveness, mobilisation & justice  

Read more and download the presentations and workshop report here

Preparing for Rio+20

20 years on from the Earth Summit, Scotland has come a long way on sustainable development. A workshop with sustainable development experts from public, private and third sectors found much to celebrate but also identified ambitions for a flourishing Scotland to take to Rio+20.

Download the workshop report here

Sniffer is changing

Sniffer leads conversations and knowledge exchange on complex issues relating to Scotland’s resilience. To reflect this role better we are re-branding – a new website will come soon.
We will be working with old and new partners in our new ‘knowledge hubs’ – our approach to connecting people, issues, knowledge and solutions:

• Identify emerging issues
• Provide a collective strategic vision and deliver solutions to complex problems
• Provide a collective strategic vision and deliver solutions to complex problems
• Define and plug gaps in knowledge and provide a mechanism to share knowledge from a wide variety of sources.
• Involve the right partners and stakeholders to engage innovatively and bring solutions to difficult complex issues.

Please visit our “holding” website www.sniffer2.org.uk to find out more about our new approach and image.  You can also keep up to date on these changes by registering to receive our e-bulletin or following us on Twitter

New look and data for the UK’s Air Pollution Information System (APIS)  

The UK's leading web database on the impacts of air pollution on the natural environment, APIS, has been given a makeover. It's now easier than ever to search for the information you want. For more information, click here.

Check out APIS at www.apis.ac.uk.

Recent Publications

To view recent publications by Sniffer please click here

Sniffer Flood Risk Management Conference 2012

The presentations from the fully subscribed 2012 conference at the Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh on 8th and 9th February 2012 will be available here soon. To view the programme from the day click here.  A few photographs from the day are available here.

Sniffer’s work on Good Places Better Health

Sniffer is pleased to announce the publication of the Mapping Study prepared for the ‘Practice, What Works?’ strand of the Scottish government’s Good Places, Better Health Project. The study aims to map out the various types of practice focusing on the physical environment that have been applied in Scotland, in an attempt to positively influence the four childhood health outcomes addressed by the GPBH project.

The report can be downloaded here

More downloadable reports can be found on the Scottish Government’s website here

Read more about Sniffer's work with GPBH here

 

Adaptation Scotland - a new name to tackle the impacts of climate change

To mark a new phase in its work encouraging people to tackle the impacts resulting from our changing climate, Scotland’s leading climate change adaptation initiative has changed its name to Adaptation Scotland.

Formerly known as the Scottish Climate Change Impacts Partnership (SCCIP), the initiative has chosen a new title to ensure that organisations and communities across Scotland are fully aware of the work it is undertaking to encourage greater resilience to climate change-related issues.

Julian Holbrook, Programme Co-ordinator for Adaptation Scotland, said: “Our name change reflects the fact that the initiative’s focus is increasingly moving from identifying how climate change might impact Scotland, to building capacity within organisations and communities to better deal with these impacts.

“Over the next 18 months, Adaptation Scotland will be working with all sectors to address the risks and opportunities climate change presents.  We will provide advice and support aimed at developing knowledge and best practice to increase climate change resilience, ensuring people are better equipped to deal with issues such as more extreme weather and increased risk of flooding".

Further information on the rebranding of SCCIP to Adaptation Scotland can be found here.