Adaptation Scotland and Scotland’s 2020 Climate Group join forces

13/12/11

Adaptation Scotland is delighted to have commenced work with Scotland’s 2020 Climate Group to raise awareness of the impacts that climate change may present to businesses and to help strengthen the adaptive capacity among the members to deal with these impacts.

To facilitate this, Adaptation Scotland is now working closely with two Group members: Royal Mail and First Group. The projects will see both companies assess the risks and opportunities that climate change may present to their business and explore possible adaptation options that are available to address these risks and take advantage of the opportunities.

Welcoming the initiative Ian Marchant, Convenor of the 2020 Group said:

 “To date much of the work of the 2020 Group has focused on climate change mitigation - reducing our emissions which contribute to the causes of climate change. However we now recognise that there is a clear need for leadership on the issue of climate change adaptation. Businesses in Scotland must start to look at where they are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and prepare to address these threats and also take advantage of the opportunities”.

Learnings from the projects will be shared with the 2020 Group so that all members can benefit and will also be developed as case studies and incorporated into Adaptation Scotland’s tools/resources so that businesses throughout Scotland can benefit from this experience. The work will take place between now and March 2012.