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?

The Climate Ready Clyde Board are keen to understand the macroeconomic costs and benefits to the region afforded by adapting to climate change. They are currently accepting Expressions of Interest to carry out this assessment. The detailed specifications for this project are included in the EOI Form below. Interested parties are requested to complete the EOI Form and return it to david@sniffer.org.uk by 12noon on 02 October 2017. Technical questions on the brief should be sent to kit@sniffer.org.uk

Latest developments

Expression_of_Interest_Brief_-_Economic_implications_of_climate_chang.._.pdf

Expression_of_interest_Application Form_(CRC1701).docx

Climate_Ready_Clyde_Prospectus.pdf

Climate_Ready_Clyde_Work_Programme.pdf

Draft_Terms_of_Reference_-_Climate_Ready_Clyde.pdf

Climate_Ready_Clyde_-_Inception_meeting_workshop_report.pdf

Questions_and_Answers_-_Climate_Ready_Clyde_initiative.pdf

Background information

Climate Ready Clyde_Vison_FINAL.pdf

Climate Ready Clyde_Consultation_Response_Analysis_and_Strategic_Outline_Case_FINAL.pdf

Climate_Ready_Clyde_Background_Briefing.pdf

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