Climate Ready Clyde

The Glasgow City Region faces numerous climate change challenges. Adapting to these challenges is easier, cheaper and more effective when we do it together. That's where Climate Ready Clyde comes in.

Why Glasgow City Region needs to get climate ready

The Glasgow City Region covers a third of Scotland both by population and economic output. As with the rest of Scotland, it faces a range of disruptive climate changes including increasing precipitation, sea level rise and rising temperatures. These changes have the potential to cause significant impacts to the health and wellbeing of the population, to economic investment and opportunities, and could exacerbate existing inequalities and raise the cost of doing business. Business as usual is not an option. But to become climate ready takes co-ordinated action and a clear strategic approach.

What is the solution?

Over the next three years Climate Ready Clyde aims to provide this strategic approach and, in so doing, help to ensure the Glasgow City Region continues to thrive long into the future.

Growing out of an initial Sniffer project, delivered through the Adaptation Scotland programme, the steering group for the Climate Ready Clyde initiative now includes representatives from Sniffer, Clydeplan, Glasgow City Council, Clyde Valley Green Network Partnership and the Scottish Government. James Curran, former Chief Executive of SEPA has recently taken up the position of interim Chair of Climate Ready Clyde.

Engagement on the design and delivery of the strategy and action plan is ongoing with 15 key organisations across the region, including Glasgow City Council, East Renfrewshire Council, North Lanarkshire Council, South Lanarkshire Council, The University of Glasgow, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and SPT.

The initiative is also engaging with a much wider range of partners who have a role in helping the City Region to adapt through development of a stakeholder forum. You can learn more about how Sniffer drives change through collaborative action in this case study.

How Climate Ready Clyde is helping to lead adaptation action

Climate Ready Clyde is already delivering results, helping to secure a place for Glasgow in the Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities Group (including funding for a Chief Resilience Officer), helping to bring the European Conference on Climate Change Adaptation to the city in June 2017, facilitating the co-design of a shared adaptation vision for the City Region. You can read more about the background to the project here.

This year the initiative has secured funding for a toolkit to assess the climate resilience of major projects and a study on the economic implications of climate change for the City Region.

Having secured £100k of funding from the Scottish Government, Climate Ready Clyde is now bringing together stakeholders to create a shared adaptation strategy and action plan. Download the Prospectus and Work Programme below to learn more about how you can contribute to helping the Glasgow City Region protect itself from the risks of climate change and seize the opportunity to be a safer, healthier, wealthier place to live and do business. To find out more about the initiative, discuss opportunities for collaboration or to join, please contact Kit England, Climate Ready Clyde Project Manager.

What next?

On 8th November we held a stakeholder engagement workshop on our Risk and Opportunities Assessment. With an audience of over 40 city region stakeholders we reviewed and prioritised the climate impacts already identified. Read our workshop summary report to find out more about the findings and methods used CRC_Risk_and_Opportunity_Workshop_8_November_2017_FINAL_For_circulation.pdf

We have also just published a new report on our first full year. You can read 'Climate Ready Clyde - One Year On' using the link below.

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Job: SNIFFER Flood Risk and Climate Engagement Coordinator

Sniffer is recruiting for a Flood Risk and Climate Engagement Coordinator to play a significant role in engaging with stakeholders in Scotland with responsibilities for Flood Risk Management, supporting knowledge exchange and designing and delivering an annual Flood Risk Management Conference in February 2019. The post holder will also contribute to Sniffer’s broader programme of activities on climate resilience and adaptation.
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Community resilience and climate justice

Sniffer has been working with a number of organisations involved in research and practice, to draw together some key learning points in relation to community resilience in the context of climate change- we have developed a short summary note and welcome feedback.
Sustainable Scotland Network

Sniffer is working together with the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI) to provide the secretariat service to the Sustainable Scotland Network (SSN) – Scotland’s largest network of public sector sustainability professionals.
Traction

Sniffer is working together with IIED to understand what constitutes climate adaptation competence and how this affects adaptation responses. Traction will explore and capture learning from adaptation progress in different countries, including: • What drives adaptation that has positive and just impacts across society? • What factors can accelerate adaptation? • What are the barriers to convening domestic adaptation competency?
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Driving change through collaboration with Climate Ready Clyde

Our commitment to taking a collaborative approach and aligning our work with the needs and aspirations of key stakeholders has helped Climate Ready Clyde grow from small beginnings into a regional initiative delivering action on the ground.
Flood Risk Management

Sniffer helps to manage flood risk in Scotland by sharing good practice and strengthening professional networks through innovative events.
Reaching diverse audiences and creating legacy with Climate Conversations

Our approach to Climate Conversations focused on breaking out of the green bubble and moving beyond awareness raising into action.
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Adaptation Scotland

Sniffer is helping Scotland get ready for the impacts of climate change by raising awareness of climate risks and opportunities, and creating catalysts for collaborative action through the Adaptation Scotland Programme.

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Flood Risk Management Conference 2018

The 2018 conference was held at the Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre in Glasgow from 5-6 February. A full conference summary report and all the presentations from the conference are now available to download. Thank to all those who contributed and attended for making another successful year.
Climate Ready Clyde

Sniffer is helping to increase the Glasgow City Region's resilience to climate impacts through the Climate Ready Clyde initiative. By bringing together key organisations to work in partnership on climate change adaptation, we are ensuring Scotland's biggest population centre is prepared for the challenges of future climate.
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Why Glasgow City Region needs to get climate ready

What is the solution?

How Climate Ready Clyde is helping to lead adaptation action

What next?

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