Climate Change Impacts and Responses for Key Businesses and Services in the Northwest

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Climate Change Impacts and Responses for Key
Businesses and Services in the Northwest

• Alice Owen
• 6th November 2008

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Project Aims

• Climate change in the Northwest update
• Impacts described spatially across the region
• Implications for key businesses and services
• Recommendations for how to respond

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Impacts
The North of the region may achieve a commercial
advantage thanks to a cooler climate and better
access to open space but it will also be
wetter Towns and Cities will experience
difficulties with overheating Coastal areas may
be exposed to higher risk of flooding
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Understand Impact Risk

• It should be a priority to understand
  implications of climate change
• LOGISTICS
• FINANCE
• MARKETS
• PROCESSES
• PEOPLE
• PREMISES

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Managing the Risk linked to Climate Change
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Understand Risk Local Authorities Image from
BBC
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Manage Risk Mitigation for ConstructionImage
from Arup
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Find Opportunities Business Professional
Services
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Whats expected of your business?

• Understand and prepare
• Expectation that public infrastructure and
  services are resilient to change

Image from Arup
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Project Outputs

• Report that will be available through the Climate
  Change Unit
• Sector Specific Briefing Packs
• Filmed interviews with climate and development
  specialists