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Introducing The First Online Global Collaboration Network Dedicated To Climate Change Adaptation Strategies
For Just £99 ( £79 early booking before May 31st, 2009)
Registered Delegates Gain Free Access To The Online Network For 12 Months! |
Putting Climate Change Risk Into A Business Planning Context - What Are Companies Actually Adapting To, And Over What Time Scale?
Across industries, the whole climate change issue is a pressing risk management issue.
Despite the efforts across industry to reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse gases, there is now increasing acceptance that some degree of climate change will happenand that we will all have to adapt to the changes.
The Climate Change Adaptation for Critical Civil Infrastructure Summit will help businesses understand the scale of climate change in order to better predict risk, develop resilience and make viable business plans around different climate scenarios. While the technical solutions for this may be easily obtainable, it is important that organizations first define what it is exactly that they need to address in order to apply the right solutions. After all, no organisation can afford to invest in assets and put preemptive measures in the ground until they have a better and clearer understanding of the real scale of climate change.
Over-Planning Versus Under-Planning? What Are The Most Vulnerable Parts Of Your Infrastructure?
It is difficult to determine what is going to be the greatest climate change related risk and to know whether you are under-planning or over-planning for it. For example, how will issues associated with rainfall intensity and extremes in temperature impact on the physical integrity of an asset?
Changes in water profiles as well as temperature profiles may also affect fundamental safety issues.
National Coordination and Communication Between Businesses on Climate Change Adaptation
National co-ordination of effort will be a highly important issue to ensure climate change adaptation strategies are really going to be effective. How exactly will everyone’s actions fit together and be co-ordinated? This Summit will provide a timely and expeditious role by bringing together all the key organisations in the nations critical infrastructures to discuss HOW they can join forces and communicate, and make not just one area resilient, but the whole framework resilient. The Summit will also be supported by an Online Network to share information on activities that are not commercially sensitive but that will enable individuals in a range of industries to share best practices and to ensure that knowledge of actions is shared. Poor communication between infrastructure providers with regards to climate change adaptation could pose considerable problems down the line and even render some points of action redundant.
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Dr Keith MacLean, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Scottish and Southern Energy
Michael Rutter, Director Energy Resilience, Department of Energy and Climate Change
Ian Stevens, Head of Regulatory Compliance, Yorkshire Water
Geoff Richards,
Sustainable Development & Climate Change, Highways Agency
Bob Stewart, Director of Environmental Services, Moray Council
Phil Evans, Chief Advisor to Government, MET Office
Tony Grayling, Head of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Environment Agency
Dr. Chris C West, Director, UK Climate Impacts Programme
Rachel Fletcher, Director Distribution, OFGEM
Nigel Riglar, Director - Environment, Gloucestershire County Council
Andy Brown, Climate Change & Environmental Performance Manager, Anglian Water
Brian Morrow, Strategy Planning Manager, United Utilities Plc
Malcolm Fergusson, Head of Climate Change, Environment Agency
Erik Kraaij, Managing Director, Union of Waterboards
Dr. Wolfgang Kerner, Principal Administrator
TEN-E Policy (2002 - May 2009), European Commission / Directorate General for Energy and Transport
Stephen Hammond, Shadow Minister, Transport
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