Adaptation & Resilience: Planning & Action for Manchester
Lead Research Organisation:
Manchester Metropolitan University
Department Name: School of Science and the Environment
Abstract
Climate change is a defining social, technical and scientific challenge of our time, posing an immense, potentially existential threat to our way of life. As outlined by the UKCP18, the impacts of climate change for the UK - a hotter, wetter climate with increased incidents of extreme weather - are here and will only be exacerbated in the future. This is the new normal, and we must adapt to it. But although there is high-level consensus regarding the urgent need for climate change adaptation, there is less clarity regarding what this means in practice and how this should be achieved.
Manchester Climate Change Partnership is a consortium of 60 organisations from across 10 sectors, comprising 20% of the city's economy, and with significant influence over the remaining 80%. The Partnership is coordinated by the Manchester Climate Change Agency (MCCA). Since 2018, MCCA has established a robust city-level and sector-level policy framework to enable action on climate change. However, as yet, adaptation and resilience has not had the same level of focused policy development or action as the city's mitigation commitments. The placement will co-produce a climate change resilience and adaptation policy and action planning framework with the Manchester Climate Change Partnership (MCCP), putting adaptation and resilience on the same footing as the city's mitigation commitments.
Specifically, the project places an academic with considerable expertise in climate change resilience and adaptation research, a proven track record in developing work of policy and practice relevance, and experience of stakeholder governance, to act as MCCA's 'Resilience and Adaptation Lead' for the 12-month project. Working collaboratively, and underpinned by the latest resilience and adaptation science, the researcher, staff at MCCA and members of MCCP will establish a SMART city-level adaptation and resilience objective for the city's climate change strategy (V. 2.0 of Manchester Climate Change Framework 2020-25) and an associated robust, trustworthy monitoring regime. The project will also support organisations and sectors from across Manchester to develop bespoke commitments and actions and build capacity for their implementation. To support and enable the delivery of these commitments, the project will also develop the existing local policy framework and identify where new policies are required.
The co-produced outputs of the work will have three guiding principles:
- It will be underpinned by the latest science to ensure stakeholders have a clear understanding of Manchester's risks and vulnerabilities to the changing climate;
- It will include an analysis of 'what works' in terms of the co-development of adaptation and resilience policies and plans;
- It will engage and build capacity and momentum across MCCP stakeholders.
The project is designed to leave a longer legacy of benefits. It will construct policy appraisal infrastructure through a monitoring and reporting regime, and through the creation of a new MCCP Adaptation and Resilience Advisory Group that will help the Partnership monitor and drive progress after the project has ended.
We must harness the knowledge locked away in our universities, with the technical abilities and entrepreneurial spirit of our private sector, the creativity of our arts and cultural sectors, and the energy of our people through youth groups, civil society and impassioned communities to build a more resilient, more adaptive Manchester. Together this project co-creates an evidence-based policy framework for climate change adaptation and will conduct primary research that showcases Manchester's evolving resilience to climate variability.
Manchester Climate Change Partnership is a consortium of 60 organisations from across 10 sectors, comprising 20% of the city's economy, and with significant influence over the remaining 80%. The Partnership is coordinated by the Manchester Climate Change Agency (MCCA). Since 2018, MCCA has established a robust city-level and sector-level policy framework to enable action on climate change. However, as yet, adaptation and resilience has not had the same level of focused policy development or action as the city's mitigation commitments. The placement will co-produce a climate change resilience and adaptation policy and action planning framework with the Manchester Climate Change Partnership (MCCP), putting adaptation and resilience on the same footing as the city's mitigation commitments.
Specifically, the project places an academic with considerable expertise in climate change resilience and adaptation research, a proven track record in developing work of policy and practice relevance, and experience of stakeholder governance, to act as MCCA's 'Resilience and Adaptation Lead' for the 12-month project. Working collaboratively, and underpinned by the latest resilience and adaptation science, the researcher, staff at MCCA and members of MCCP will establish a SMART city-level adaptation and resilience objective for the city's climate change strategy (V. 2.0 of Manchester Climate Change Framework 2020-25) and an associated robust, trustworthy monitoring regime. The project will also support organisations and sectors from across Manchester to develop bespoke commitments and actions and build capacity for their implementation. To support and enable the delivery of these commitments, the project will also develop the existing local policy framework and identify where new policies are required.
The co-produced outputs of the work will have three guiding principles:
- It will be underpinned by the latest science to ensure stakeholders have a clear understanding of Manchester's risks and vulnerabilities to the changing climate;
- It will include an analysis of 'what works' in terms of the co-development of adaptation and resilience policies and plans;
- It will engage and build capacity and momentum across MCCP stakeholders.
The project is designed to leave a longer legacy of benefits. It will construct policy appraisal infrastructure through a monitoring and reporting regime, and through the creation of a new MCCP Adaptation and Resilience Advisory Group that will help the Partnership monitor and drive progress after the project has ended.
We must harness the knowledge locked away in our universities, with the technical abilities and entrepreneurial spirit of our private sector, the creativity of our arts and cultural sectors, and the energy of our people through youth groups, civil society and impassioned communities to build a more resilient, more adaptive Manchester. Together this project co-creates an evidence-based policy framework for climate change adaptation and will conduct primary research that showcases Manchester's evolving resilience to climate variability.
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| Paul O'Hare (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Garry F
(2024)
Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK
Lonsdale K
(2024)
Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK
| Title | Manchester Climate Ready: Working together to mitigate and adapt to climate change |
| Description | In 2019 Manchester declared a climate emergency. Manchester Climate Change Agency (MCCA) & Manchester Climate Change Partnership (MCCP) are responsible for setting a strategy to address climate change and to champion climate change action in the city. This video introduces our ongoing work to limit the impacts of climate change and to create a healthy, green, socially just city where everyone can thrive, whatever the weather. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7KD6upEBSQ |
| Description | The award facilitated my placement as an embedded researcher with the Manchester Climate Change Agency (MCCA) for one year, January - December 2021. The placement was designed to develop scientifically informed objectives that would boost city wide climate resilience. It entailed close co-operation with policy makers at MCCA and Manchester City Council, and sustained engagement with wider Manchester Climate Change Partnership stakeholders, including businesses, service providers and civil society organisations. The project's main outputs, detailed below and elaborated upon elsewhere in this submission, were co-produced through close collaboration with these partners. This collaboration will be sustained in future years, particularly through my position on the MCCA Adaptation & Resilience Advisory Group. Many organisations across the city are at a very early stage of considering climate risk and resilience, if it is being considered at all. Consequently, rather than developing bespoke sectoral risk assessments, early work in the project contributed to a wider ranging technical output proposing an overarching framework for understanding Manchester's vulnerability to climate change. The document identifies six key themes, raising critical questions and considerations influencing city-wide climate risk and vulnerability. These are: people and society; economic activity; place and the built environment; infrastructure; the natural environment, biodiversity and green and blue infrastructure; and cross-cutting themes, including interdependencies such as the management of risk across the city's boundaries. It is envisaged that the document will stimulate and inform work across city-wide stakeholders to enhance awareness and understanding of climate risk. The document also makes the case for key organisations at the city and city-region scale to conduct a comprehensive, spatially and scientifically informed climate risk assessment. A further significant output was the co-production of the concept of 'progressive resilience'. This entailed taking scientifically informed, academically robust interpretations of resilience, and giving them a city-level policy and practice perspective to ensure climate resilience initiatives gain traction across multiple agendas. Most notably, I have written a policy section for the refresh of the Manchester Climate Change Framework. This develops a series of principles for achieving 'progressive resilience', and an associated range of practical interventions and initiatives that will, we hope, drive climate resilience action across the city. This work is likely to be published in late Spring, 2022. Further outputs included the development of associated communications and material, including animations, case studies, City climate packs and a website that will promote best practice throughout the city and beyond. Several of these were developed in conjunction with partners, including the Met Office and Manchester City Council. Please note, some of these outputs were funded through additional impact funding, and will therefore be reported on separately. Finally, across the course of the award I engaged with key partners and networks, including in advisory groups on decarbonising construction, facilitating a network of Greater Manchester climate policy officers, working with the Manchester City Council carbon literacy officer to ensure training takes account of Manchester climate risk, adaptation and resilience, and being invited to join the Expert Review Group for the UN's Race to Resilience initiative. |
| Exploitation Route | The project outputs have been adopted by Manchester Climate Change Agency. In particular, work to develop the concept of 'progressive resilience' and on assessing Manchester's climate risk made a significant contribution to the 2022 refresh of the Manchester Climate Change Framework. Specifically, I drafted Chapter 4 of this document on 'Adaptation and Resilience': https://www.manchesterclimate.com/sites/default/files/2022%20Update%20of%20the%20Manchester%20Climate%20Change%20Framework%20%282020-25%29%20AA.pdf I continue to work with the Agency to disseminate the work throughout the city (through the Manchester Climate Change Partnership), in particular to identify and promote practical action to realise greater climate resilience across the city. In February 2023 I became Chair of the MCCA Adaptation & Resilience Advisory Group'. The Agency also hopes to build upon my work on climate risk and vulnerability by pursuing options to conduct a full climate risk assessment for Manchester. Beyond this, I hope to promote the work through opportunities being developed by the Climate Resilience Programme (i.e. the project's funding stream) team and though my formal and informal liaison with climate officers across Greater Manchester and beyond. |
| Sectors | Government Democracy and Justice Other |
| Description | The award facilitated my placement as an embedded researcher with the Manchester Climate Change Agency (MCCA) for one year (January - December 2021). The placement was designed to develop scientifically informed objectives that would boost city wide climate resilience. It entailed close co-operation with policy makers at MCCA and Manchester City Council, and sustained engagement with wider Manchester Climate Change Partnership stakeholders, including businesses, service providers and civil society organisations. The work entailed significant collaboration with the MCCA, culminating with the co-production of the concept of 'progressive resilience', an associated suite of resilience and adaptation characteristics, and accompanying principles and actions to realise resilience and adaptation in practice. Outputs were published in the Manchester Climate Change Framework (in particular, Chapter 4), published in Autumn 2022. In addition, the concept of progressive resilience has been heavily quoted in the Manchester city council green and blue infrastructure implementation plan (2022). Beyond this, findings as well as city-wide resilience and adaptation case studies have also been published on the website www.manchesterclimateready.com I also engaged with key partners and networks, including in advisory groups on decarbonising construction, facilitating a network of Greater Manchester climate policy officers, joining the Wigan Climate Commission, and being invited to join the Expert Review Group for the UN's Race to Resilience initiative. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Other |
| Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
| Description | Chair of the Manchester Climate Change Agency (MCCA) Adaptation and Resilience Advisory Group |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.manchesterclimate.com/adaptation-resilience-advisory-group |
| Description | Contribution to MCCA's annual reporting to the Carbon Disclosure Project |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | In 2021, partly due to our ability to report significant progress on adaptation and resilience, Manchester moved up the rankings to a 'B'. In 2022 my further work on adaptation and resilience, in particular work on assessing city-wide climate vulnerability and in developing the baseline for adaptation and resilience planning, directly led to the city becoming 'A' ranked for the first time. See here for further information: https://www.cdp.net/en/cities/cities-scores |
| URL | http://www.cdp.net/en/cities/cities-scores |
| Description | Drafting of Chapter 4 '2022 Update of the Manchester Climate Change Framework (2020-25)' |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | I drafted Chapter 4 (Adaptation and Resilience) of the document '2022 Update of the Manchester Climate Change Framework (2020-25)'. As noted on Page 9: "Chapter 4 provides an overview of work by Manchester Metropolitan University and MCCP's Adaptation and Resilience Advisory Group to help the city assess its vulnerability to climate risk, define the characteristics of a climate resilient city, and establish principles to guide both ambition and practical action, including how green infrastructure and nature-based solutions can support these efforts." The chapter draws on two key documents I drafted whilst seconded to the Manchester Climate Change Agency: 1) Manchester Climate Ready: Developing progressive resilience across the city. https://www.manchesterclimate.com/sites/default/files/Progressive%20resilience_FINAL_UPLOAD.pdf 2) Manchester Climate Risk: A Framework for understanding hazards and vulnerability. https://www.manchesterclimate.com/sites/default/files/Climate%20vulnerability%20framework_0.pdf |
| URL | https://www.manchesterclimate.com/sites/default/files/2022%20Update%20of%20the%20Manchester%20Climat... |
| Description | Emergency Planning Society - Flood Resilience Professional Working Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| URL | https://the-eps.org/about-us/professional-working-groups/flood-resilience-water-management/ |
| Description | Engagement with the MCCP zero carbon new build task group |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.manchesterclimate.com/sites/default/files/Roadmap%20to%20Net%20Zero%20Carbon%20-%20Repor... |
| Description | Liaison with Neighbourhood Climate Change Steering Group (Manchester City Council) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Development of a further plan of work for integrating adaptation and resilience into neighbourhood plans. Included planning for a workshop in December 2023. |
| Description | Manchester Adaptation and Resilience Advisory Group |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.manchesterclimate.com/adaptation-resilience-advisory-group |
| Description | Manchester Climate Change Agency & Manchester City Business Climate Alliance - Zero Carbon Business Programme |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Member of Expert Review Group for the UN's Race to Resilience initiative |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The UN's Race to Resilience is a global movement that works to build the resilience of four billion people - from groups and communities vulnerable to climate risks. I am a member of the programme's Expert Review Group. It is our role to review applications to join the Race to Resilience, to provide comment and feedback against resilience criteria, and make a collective recommendation regarding their suitability for acceptance into the programme. |
| URL | https://racetozero.unfccc.int/governance/ |
| Description | Outputs and on-going work referred to in a Manchester City Council Health Scrutiny Committee report |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://democracy.manchester.gov.uk/documents/s32084/Climate%20Change%20on%20Health%20and%20Healthca... |
| Description | Wigan Climate Coalition |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.wigan.gov.uk/News/Cabinet-column/2022/Climate-coalition.aspx |
| Description | Work referred to in Manchester policy document - Green and Blue Infrastructure Strategy Review, 2022 |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Urban heat risk in Manchester |
| Organisation | Manchester City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration between myself, Manchester City Council and the Met Office to co=produce work on identifying urban heat risk in Manchester. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Colleagues at the Met Office produced the hazard and impact mapping for the website. I, working on behalf of the Manchester Climate Change Agency, and a team at Manchester City Council provided steering input for the work. |
| Impact | Multidisciplinary - public health, climate risk and geography. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Urban heat risk in Manchester |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration between myself, Manchester City Council and the Met Office to co=produce work on identifying urban heat risk in Manchester. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Colleagues at the Met Office produced the hazard and impact mapping for the website. I, working on behalf of the Manchester Climate Change Agency, and a team at Manchester City Council provided steering input for the work. |
| Impact | Multidisciplinary - public health, climate risk and geography. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Work with the UK Met Office to co-produce a Manchester climate change 'City Pack' |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I worked with colleagues at the Met Office to develop 'City Packs' designed to present the UK Climate Projections 2018 in a user-friendly manner. This involved reviewing iterations of the City Pack template as they evolved through the work of the Met Office engagement and outreach team. I encouraged the development of a section for insertion by local authorities, and provided feedback on sections on adaptation and resilience. This work also involved drafting a page on Manchester climate change policy for integration into the Manchester City Pack (on behalf of the Manchester Climate Change Agency). This was launched in summer 2022. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This partnership was led by the Met Office (funded by, amongst others, the Climate Resilience Programme). In terms of the Met Office 'City Pack', I provided wording on Manchester's climate mitigation and adaptation policy on behalf of MCCA as part of my UKRI funded secondment. I also co-ordinated wider input from staff at MCCA. This has become a Manchester-based exemplar, published on the Met Office website in August 2022. |
| Impact | Manchester City Pack, published in August 2022. The collaboration is multi-disciplinary, drawing together expertise in local government, social science and the humanities and climate modelling expertise. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Advice given to the Manchester City Council Health Scrutiny Committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I engaged with officers attached to the Manchester City Council Health Scrutiny Committee. I fed in to the report "An Introduction to the Impact of Climate Change on Health and Healthcare in Manchester", presented to Committee on 9 February 2022. The report cited my work as follows: 3.2.5 Manchester Climate Change Framework includes the high-level objective 'to adapt the city's buildings, infrastructure and natural environment to the changing climate and increase the climate resilience of our residents and organisation'. As part of this work Dr Paul O'Hare was seconded from MMU to MCCA and has developed a 'Framework for Understanding Hazards and Vulnerability in Manchester'. As part of this work, it is recommended that a comprehensive city-wide risk assessment is undertaken. This work, and work to develop a vision, principles and actions for creating a more climate resilient Manchester, will be expanded upon in Framework 2.0. My work was also cited as a background document. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://democracy.manchester.gov.uk/documents/s32084/Climate%20Change%20on%20Health%20and%20Healthca... |
| Description | Blog-post on the publication of the Manchester Climate Risk: Framework for understanding hazards and vulnerability |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Drafting of a short blog on the publication of Manchester Climate Risk: Framework for understanding hazards and vulnerability. The blog was published on the Manchester Climate Change Agency website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.manchesterclimate.com/news/2021/05/manchester-climate-risk-framework-understanding-hazar... |
| Description | Climate Change - GM Officers Group Meetings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Climate Change - GM Officers Group Meeting. Meets every three or four months. Hosted by MMU. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Climate Change GM Officers Group - workshop on climate adaptation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 15th June 2023. Workshop delivered on climate resilience and adaptation to circa 30 GM climate officers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Climate Risk and Resilience - Breakfast Seminar (Savills, 7th September, 2023) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Savills Sustainability team hosted a climate risk breakfast to help demystify climate risk and demonstrate how climate adaptation action is taking place locally. During this event at which I was a guest speaker, we outlined why climate risk is becoming a critical part of investment decision-making and business strategies, how the transition from TCFD to the new ISSB IFRS sustainability standard is impacting the integration of physical risk assessment into business, and how businesses and local authorities within the Greater Manchester region are working to improve resilience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Climate Risk and the Built Environment (RTPI CPD conference) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Provided a talk on climate change and the build environment. 'Adaption, Resilience and Planning'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.rtpi.org.uk/events/2022/june/climate-risk-and-the-built-environment/ |
| Description | Emergency Planning Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Guest talk at the EPS conference, Manchester, October, 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://the-eps.org/annual-conference/ |
| Description | Engagement with the Manchester City Council Carbon literacy programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I am working with Manchester City Council's Carbon Literacy officer to identify how work on risk and vulnerability, and beyond resilience and adaptation might be integrated into carbon literacy training for all Council staff. this work is on-going. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Geographical Association - Manchester Branch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk to around 20 attendees. 'Are we climate ready'. 4th May 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://geography.org.uk/ga-manchester-branch/ |
| Description | Manchester Arts Sustainability Team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | MAST was established in 2010 by a group of Manchester-based arts and culture organisations to begin to understand how they could contribute to the delivery of Manchester: A Certain Future and to subsequent policy initiatives. The group now has over 30 members and meets regularly to share best practice and develop new joint initiatives. I made two presentations to the group on 10th March 2021. I introduced the project to the network and laid the groundwork for further collaboration later in the year and beyond. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Manchester City Council, Neighbourhoods Climate Risk, Resilience and Adaptation Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop was designed to provide an introduction to climate risk and climate resilience and adaptation for local authority neighbourhood and engagement officers. Attendees were asked to consider how climate risk will effect their neighbourhoods and communities, and how they can speak to communities about climate risk. The workshop ended with the commencement of action planning for future updates to neighbourhood climate plans. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Manchester Climate Change Agency - Resilience and Adaptation Advisory Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Manchester Adaptation and Resilience Advisory Group (ARAG) is one of four Independent Advisory Groups established (or in the process of being established) to monitor progress against the objectives in the Manchester Climate Change Framework The ARAG was established in 2020 to develop Manchester's adaptation and resilience commitments in line with the latest science, to monitor progress against them, and to make recommendations where new actions are needed to ensure the commitments are met. The group currently meets every month. I have been a member since summer 2000, joining a few months after the Advisory Group's inception. Throughout 2021 and into early 2021 I provided updates to the group on my work, and sought their support, guidance and peer review for research and policy/ practice/ stakeholder engagement activity and on drafts of work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.manchesterclimate.com/adaptation-resilience-advisory-group |
| Description | Manchester Climate Change Partnership meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attendance of and updates to the Manchester Climate Change Partnership Board. I have spoken at Board meetings on three occasions: February 2021; July 2021 & January 2022; |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Manchester Cultural Leaders Climate Summit, January 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to around 40 regional cultural leaders: Manchester Climate Ready Risk, resilience & climate adaptation. Manchester Arts Sustainability Team, Manchester Cultural Leaders Climate Summit, 19th January 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.g-mast.org/mast-timeline |
| Description | Manchester Green Infrastructure Stakeholder Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I attended and addressed a meeting of the Manchester Green Infrastructure Stakeholder Group on Thursday 25th November 2021 at the Manchester National Trust office, Oxford Street. The meeting drew together stakeholders with an interest in green infrastructure from across the city. It was chaired by Dave Barlow, Snr Policy Officer and Lead Green infrastructure & Biodiversity, Environment, Planning and Infrastructure Team, Growth & Development Directorate, Manchester City Council. I gave a presentation entitled 'MCR - Manchester Climate Ready' which later had an influence on the City's soon to be published Green Infrastructure Action Plan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Met Office Twitter Spaces |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to Twitter Spaces discussion with the Met Office, January 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Outputs and on-going work referred to in a Manchester City Council Environment and Climate Change Scrutiny Committee reports |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | My work has been referred to in City Council Environment & Climate Change Scrutiny Committee reports. For instance, the report submitted for the Committee meeting on 10th February noted: "6.1 The refresh of the Framework will also include an update on research to move the city forwards on climate adaptation and resilience. This centres around work by Manchester Metropolitan University to develop a framework for understanding Manchester's vulnerability to climate risk, a vision for a climate ready city and a set of principles and actions for different stakeholders to implement. 6.2 A workshop is taking place in February with senior decision-makers in the Council to ensure this work is aligned to the city's Green & Blue Infrastructure Strategy and recently launched initiatives such as Our Rivers Our City." Reference: https://democracy.manchester.gov.uk/documents/s32070/Refresh%20of%20Manchesters%20Climate%20Change%20Framework.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://democracy.manchester.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=358&MId=3979&Ver=4 |
| Description | Presentation at the Resilience Hub Pavillion at CoP26 in Glasgow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited by the Race to Resilience team to speak at the Resilience Hub Pavillion at the UN Conference of the Parties (CoP26) in Glasgow. The online talk took place at 10am on Friday 12th November during the session "Making measurement make the difference to vulnerable people, communities and natural systems". At the session, which was simultaneously broadcast to participants across the world, I participated in a roundtable dialogue on urban-scale resilience and adaptation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://cop-resilience-hub.org/ |
| Description | Presentation on the UKRI-Climate Resilience Programme Embedded Researcher Scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 29th April, 2021 I gave a presentation on my placement at the Manchester Climate Change Agency (MCCA) for the Project funder (UKRI-Climate Resilience Programme Embedded Researcher Scheme). The audience consisted of around 40 - 50 academics and post-doctoral researchers seeking to find further information regarding Phase 2 of the Embedded Researcher Scheme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | SPF UKCR Steering Committee - 21st June 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Provided a talk on my placement on the Embedded Researcher Scheme to the Climate Resilience Programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Salford Climate Action Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Provided a talk local authorities and climate action. 5th June, 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk to virtual forum organised by the National Flood Forum - 10th May 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk entitled 'Bridging troubled waters? Flood groups, democratic engagement & resilient citizens'. Around 20 representatives from flood action groups across the UK were in attendance. Chaired by Paul Cobbing, Chief Executive of the National Flood Forum. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Trafford Council: Climate Emergency and Air Quality Commission |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Provided a talk on climate adaptation and resilience to Trafford Council Climate Emergency and Air Quality Commission, 27th June, 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | URBACT Action Planning Network - July 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I was invited by colleagues at Manchester City Council to give a presentation on 'Resilience and adaptation in Manchester' at the URBACT Action Planning Network on Thursday 8th July, 2021. The presentation was designed to introduce a wider facilitated debate named "What are co-benefits from a Covid recovery from a socio-economic perspective?". The event was facilitated by Adrian Slatcher (Manchester City Council) and Ian Turner (Energy Cities). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://manchester-gov-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqcuigrTsvHNEnyfA6zJqUc9aUYVa7QQsY |