UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (UKCCRA), September 2010

23/09/10

As part of the on-going work on the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (UKCCRA), a workshop was held on 23 September 2010 in Glasgow.

This workshop formed part of the regional assessment and gave stakeholders an opportunity to discuss which sectors are important for Scotland and which risks they would like to see reflected in the UKCCRA.

 

 

 

Objectives of the workshop: 

• Ensure that participants have a common understanding of what the UKCCRA involves and are clear about the work that has been done so far.

• Provide an opportunity for participants to input in to defining what specific climate change impacts are important for them, which are important for Scotland and to identify any further evidence they are aware of to support this.
• Review the outputs from the UK-wide sector-based assessment, in particular the list of climate impacts, to identify the priority omissions that should be addressed in the Scotland-focussed assessment.
• Inform how any additional impacts could be measured (using risk metrics) and what data would be required to do this.
• Brief participants on how the results of their input will be used to complete the risk assessment and in the subsequent economic assessment of adaptation.

A report from the workshop can be found below as well as presentations from the day.