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Adaptation Scotland :: Benchmarking

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The Benchmarking Tool helps illustrate an organisation’s adaptation journey. It should be used to provide a baseline assessment of your organisation’s current adaptation capabilities and how their development progresses over time. It highlights which capability areas the organisation is excelling at…

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Could we all pull together a comprehensive list ( online) of what has been done, talk to the folks involved, the lessons learned to showcase Climate Adaptation approaches. We could also develop playbooks, open source tools and knowledge sharing forum for Councils and citizens?

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An idea to have a street party to help educate the local community about what's available to them solar panels heating SharedMobility etc a fun educational way of getting everyone involved.

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How to bring nature into the built environment to help regulate heat, reduce flooding, improve air quality and this could include reintroducing beavers in rivers. So be good to trial living walls and roofs in urban areas

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How to bring nature into the built environment to help regulate heat, reduce flooding, improve air quality and this could include reintroducing beavers in rivers. So be good to trial living walls and roofs in urban areas

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Would be really interested in joining up for an Adaptation Garden group - Dan Lloyd (daniel1_lloyd@sandwell.gov.uk) - Climate Change Programme Officer

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San Francisco funds street parties on condition that everyone is invited, so that people get to know each other on the basis that this improves preparedness for a range of disasters that are becoming more frequest (e.g. evacuation due to fire).

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San Francisco funds street parties on condition that everyone is invited, so that people get to know each other on the basis that this improves preparedness for a range of disasters that are becoming more frequest (e.g. evacuation due to fire).

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A platform to value and invest in nature beyond carbon

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Add your contact details here – but remember this is a public board.

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Add your contact details here – but remember this is a public board.

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Share email address, Twitter handle or however you would like to be approached by others who might like to work with you. It also helps if you include your workplace and any details about what you might like to work on with others.

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Environment Specialist working on climate and ecologicial emergency work for SSDC cara.naden@southsomerset.gov.uk

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Environment Specialist working on climate and ecologicial emergency work for SSDC cara.naden@southsomerset.gov.uk

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Find ways to add in policies for planning

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Find ways to add in policies for planning

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Already looking at how to accelerate retrofit - would be interested in the bigger issues such as flooding adaptation -should we in fact allow more flooding areas and move people out of the flood risk areas? Or at least do more radical solutions to make homes & businesses more adaptable to flooding whether that is redesigning how we use the buildings and build them - including floating homes. 

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Already looking at how to accelerate retrofit - would be interested in the bigger issues such as flooding adaptation -should we in fact allow more flooding areas and move people out of the flood risk areas? Or at least do more radical solutions to make homes & businesses more adaptable to flooding whether that is redesigning how we use the buildings and build them - including floating homes. 

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This is us. Feel free to drop me an email if you'd like to chat: josh.shimmin@atamate.com

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This is us. Feel free to drop me an email if you'd like to chat: josh.shimmin@atamate.com

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Atamate Building Intelligence | Data driven control for all buildings

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Easy to use, simple to extend

Atamate systems are designed to work in the background. For the times when data needs to be interrogated or room controls accessed, we have a user interface ideal for you - smart light switches for residential use, smart phone control for closing blinds or desktop dashboards for reporting and analytics.

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Atamate Building Intelligence | Data driven control for all buildings

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Atamate systems are designed to work in the background. For the times when data needs to be interrogated or room controls accessed, we have a user interface ideal for you - smart light switches for residential use, smart phone control for closing blinds or desktop dashboards for reporting and analytics.

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We have existing flood warden networks and community outreach but feels like we could do more to bring people together for community resilience and share info about flood risk, how to make your home more resilient (overheating etc) via these networks or other events (also without scaring people) maybe more of a peer led approach?

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Head of Solutions - design for 40two, working with Local Gov to develop solutions around green infrastructure / natural capital modelling and decarbonising infrastructure. Really happy to lend our digital / tech skills to help develop something with here. Maybe we can go Open Source and pull in some bigger tech partners (AWS etc) to help reduce costs? rob@40two.io

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Promoting and increasing take up of SWIMS

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Promoting and increasing take up of SWIMS

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Maybe this isn't a new innovation but lots of benefit in rolling this out further

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Using its new elevation data model ( CoastalDEM®) Climate Central found far greater global threats from sea level rise and coastal flooding than previously thought, and greater benefits from reducing their causes. This interactive map highlights the importance of accurate elevation data for assessing coastal flood risks, but the water level and year map are better suited for actually assessing those risks.

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Surging Seas Sea level rise analysis by Climate Central

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Using its new elevation data model ( CoastalDEM®) Climate Central found far greater global threats from sea level rise and coastal flooding than previously thought, and greater benefits from reducing their causes. This interactive map highlights the importance of accurate elevation data for assessing coastal flood risks, but the water level and year map are better suited for actually assessing those risks.

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Ben Plummer, Colchester Borough Council, Ben.Plummer@colchester.gov.uk

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Environment Strategy Programme Manager at Kent County Council: bethany.pepper@kent.gov.uk

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A sustainable approach to rainwater treatment

Rain gardens deliver visual amenity improvements and a more sustainable approach to rainwater treatment. In a natural environment most rainwater gradually soaks into the ground, but in urban environments impermeable surfaces push rainwater run-off into storm drains where it enters the sewer system, mixes with waste water from residences, and is routed for costly sewerage treatment.

Greener Grangetown's rain gardens are planted areas that mimic the natural environment, providing a more sustainable method for catching and cleaning rainwater. When it rains, water flows into the rain gardens where hardy plants and trees soak it up and filter it, capturing and breaking down some pollutants along the way. During heavy storms, water that cannot be absorbed by soil and vegetation travels through pipes at the base of each rain garden and is conveyed to the nearby River Taff.

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Rain gardens deliver visual amenity improvements and a more sustainable approach to rainwater treatment. In a natural environment most rainwater gradually soaks into the ground, but in urban environments impermeable surfaces push rainwater run-off into storm drains where it enters the sewer system, mixes with waste water from residences, and is routed for costly sewerage treatment.

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Showing people how they could garden in a different way to adapt to a changing climate e.g. drought resistant plants, water conservation methods, pollinator friendly plants and other ecological methods.

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Cool Towns Margate (heat resilience and SuDS)

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Cool Towns Margate (heat resilience and SuDS)

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Description

Margate in Kent, on the Isle of Thanet in the south of England, is a historic seaside resort. Becoming popular during the Victorian times, this town exemplifies the typical coastal urban realm - with a mixed demographic, but an ageing population. In ancient times, the Isle of Thanet was truly an island, surrounded by the sea and an inland channel; built on chalk with silty clay topsoil, but the channel silted up in the Middle Ages and is now part of the mainland.

Over the past few years, there have been multiple flooding issues in Margate. The Wastewater Treatment Plant dealing with the sewage from Margate has been overwhelmed in storm conditions every year, with sewage spills affecting the blue flag beaches around the Margate area, which has been expensive and damaging for the whole economy of the area.

In addition to the stormwater issues, Margate has suffered from the increasing summer temperatures; this is a feature of climate change, longer drier and hotter summers. Whilst it may seem attractive to have hotter summers for a seaside location, these higher temperatures can affect people's health, the quality of life of residents, as well as air quality.

Kent County Council applied to the EU Interreg Cool Towns project for funding to pilot a scheme to use nature-based solutions to mitigate both stormwater and the heat island effect during the summer. Explaining that Margate is at risk of impacts of climate change, the town was selected as one of the towns across the EU to take part in this exercise. GreenBlue Urban are a partner with the EU Interreg 2 Seas program, and WSP worked on the technical design. The installation was carried out by Duke Civil Contractors of Kent.

George V Park was identified as an area which could provide SuDS for the surrounding area by the LLFA. Stantec Design we're appointed to review initial concepts to see if SuDS could be retro fitted. The outline design looked to disconnect all existing gullies from the combined sewer to reduce flooding within the downstream catchment. Through the detailed design George V Park was sized to intercept and retain surface water runoff from George V Avenue and the three adjacent streets.

The park itself now take flows from the surrounding gullies into bio-retention swales which then convey flow through a series of detention basins which in turn discharge to ground via soakaways. As such the scheme has been able to remove a significant of existing catchment from entering the combined sewer. were planted in this area by local community groups to help with water attenuation.

Nearby streets were identified as being sensitive to impacts of climate change - in July 2019 the local medical practice had to close for 3 days due to being too hot. With initial concepts again from Stantec Design It was decided to implement a program of street tree planting, including some trees with additional soil and water provision for monitoring.

In Maynard Avenue and Garrard Avenue, over 30 trees were planted, of which 11 trees were installed in full GreenBlue Urban ArborFlow systems. The trees were a mixture of Field maples (Acer Campestra Louisa Red Shine) and Maidenhair (Ginkgo Biloba) species, The chalk geology enables infiltration, which means that stormwater coming off the roads and hard surfacing enters the tree pits via drop kerb, over a profiled paving area to break the force of the incoming water, down a swale and into the tree pit below. The water then percolates through the bio-remediation soil, down through a drainage stone and into the chalk base.

Each of the eleven locations include 12 cubic meters of bioretention soil with a pore space of more than 20% to capture and attenuate 2,400 litres of runoff within the soil profile, reducing peak flow outputs from the tree pit allowing the surface water to be discharged into the chalk subsoil in the site, completely removing the water from the surface water drainage network.

GreenBlue Urban have taken the lead to ensure these trees are being monitored for not only their ability to attenuate the stormwater but also for their ability to evapo-transpire. When trees have an available water supply to the rooting volume, water can be taken up by the tree and transpired through the canopy, cooling the air. This solution can be very effective, as has been shown in cities across the world, and will be measured and monitored by the University of Kent, taking the trees in standard tree pits as a datum, and therefore seeing how much better trees in the enhanced pits are.

It is well known that 90% of all the water that trees absorb from the ground is evapo-transpired. The question is whether this can be maintained for longer if water is held in the soil with carefully mixed soils.

Many lessons have been learnt from this project. There are many varied and sometimes surprising reasons why residents may not want street tree planting; there are below ground constraints that may not show on utility mapping; correct specification of drainage stone and soils is critical, proper maintenance is required, including topping up of soils where initial settlement may occur, and irrigation is necessary during dry periods for at least three years.

KCC states:- The ArborFlow suite of products integrate together to provide a complete system which effectively allows us to integrate healthy and thriving trees for future generations which in turn provide so many other benefits for stormwater management and cooling to mention only two!

The Cool Towns initiative has enabled Margate to be at the forefront of urban climate change mitigation, and over the next few years will doubtless prove that urban greening is an effective way of providing a sustainable and resilient urban future. This program also supports the local initiatives seeking additional biodiversity, green space, carbon reduction and improved air quality.

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Description Margate in Kent, on the Isle of Thanet in the south of England, is a historic seaside resort. Becoming popular during the Victorian times, this town exemplifies the typical coastal urban realm - with a mixed demographic, but an ageing population.

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Understanding of potential climate risks

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Understanding of potential climate risks

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Lots of dramatic stuff about flooding and temperature rises - But not a lot of this is very locally focussed. Challenge is lack of data to know where worst climate risks may occur, to then be able to plan some potential solutions to counter/weaken the risks.

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Had to leave the meeting - really sorry - but happy to be contacted. We're a non-profit, and amongst other things we're making the Local Climate Adaptation Tool with Exeter Uni and Cornwall Council (I put the prototype in the solutions column, nation version is due Nov/Dec). My email is amber@thentrythis.org and this is us:  

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Had to leave the meeting - really sorry - but happy to be contacted. We're a non-profit, and amongst other things we're making the Local Climate Adaptation Tool with Exeter Uni and Cornwall Council (I put the prototype in the solutions column, nation version is due Nov/Dec). My email is amber@thentrythis.org and this is us:  

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We are working towards a world with equitable access to knowledge, where thoughtful tools and interventions help us play with complexity and make better decisions, and environmental and social issues are centred and addressed with careful urgency.

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Increasing resident awareness of how climate will be changing (and the result impacts) and what they can do to cope/adapt to a changing climate

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This prototype tool allows you to see climate change forecasts for local areas, the expected impacts on health and wellbeing, and suggested adaptation priorities. All information presented is based on scientific research, and links to relevant publications are available.

Select Zones

To begin, click/tap on the map to select the area/s you are interested in. The Index of Multiple Deprivation is shown to help guide you to priority areas.

Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA)

English Indices of Deprivation 2019 Open Data from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

The prototype Climate and Health Tool has been developed by the University of Exeter's European Centre for Human Health, Cornwall Council, and Then Try This, with co-design partners from the NHS, voluntary sector and emergency services. Funding support has been provided by the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio, delivered by Local Government Association, University College London and the University of Exeter Strategic Priorities Fund.

Source code published under the Common Good Public License Beta 1.0 Copyright © 2022 Then Try This and University of Exeter

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This prototype tool allows you to see climate change forecasts for local areas, the expected impacts on health and wellbeing, and suggested adaptation priorities. All information presented is based on scientific research, and links to relevant publications are available. To begin, click/tap on the map to select the area/s you are interested in.

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Integration of adaptation into ways of working/lifestyles

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Integration of adaptation into ways of working/lifestyles

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For mitigation, there are lots of simple tips/principles/ways of working we know about how to reduce our environmental impacts/emissions. However, it is less known about behaviours that we'll need to adopt to cope with/adapt to a changing climate.

Challenge is what are the behaviours/ways of working do we need to adopt, How to communicate these to our staff/residents etc.

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Assessing the impact (including financial cost) of extreme weather events

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Connecting people, in all spheres of life, to foster mutual support and collaboration in the process of anticipating, observing, and experiencing societal disruption and collapse.

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