Climate Change Adaptation - Webinar Series

Events in the series

• 29 January: Climate Change Adaptation Overview

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  Featured speakers:

  • Morgan Roberts, Project Officer – Climate Change Adaptation, Sustainability West Midlands
    Morgan works for Sustainability West Midlands (SWM), an independent not-for-profit organisation with 22+ years of experience across the sustainability sector and a strong focus on stakeholder engagement. SWM work with a range of sectors on climate change adaptation, including having worked with organisations such as the Environment Agency to produce free guides for businesses, the NHS, Local Authorities, and more on understanding and adapting to the risks and opportunities posed by a changing climate. Morgan will be providing an introduction to climate change adaptation and how this is relevant to all people and businesses.
  • Georgia Rolfe, Principal Sustainable Technologies Consultant, Climate Change Adaptation Lead, Cambridge Consultants
    Georgia is a Principal Sustainable Technologies Consultant at Cambridge Consultants (CC), the deep tech powerhouse of Capgemini. Georgia leads climate adaptation and resilience efforts at CC, focusing on the critical role of technology in future-proofing businesses and society.  Georgia leverages CC’s extensive capabilities to drive transformative projects that tackle complex scientific and engineering challenges.

• 12 February: Biodiversity

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  Featured speakers:

  • Dr. Amanda Flint, Head of the Nature-based Solutions team, Middlemarch
    Amanda leads the management and development of the Biodiversity and Nature Based Solutions service area at Middlemarch, the UK’s largest Wildlife Trust Consultancy. Amanda has over 15 years of experience working and studying ecology in an academic environment. Specialising in temporal and spatial plant community composition, species co-occurrence patterns, species diversity and restorative management practices. Amanda has extensive experience in the quantitative assessment of biodiversity impacts, opportunities, and constraints across local, regional and national scales.
  • Isobel Ashbey, Senior Consultant, Biodiversity and Nature Tech Lead, Cambridge Consultants
    Isobel is a technologist with 9 years’ experience in building deep tech solutions to solve challenges and unlock competitive advantage for companies across the Consumer and Energy sectors. Having recently studied Biodiversity, Wildlife and Ecosystem Health at the University of Edinburgh, she now brings her technical expertise to the Nature Tech arena. She believes that innovation is crucial across all sectors to turn around our impact on nature, and that deep tech will be a key enabler of that transition.
  • Edward (Ed) Asseily, CEO, Zulu Ecosystems
    Ed is CEO at Zulu Ecosystems, a tech-enabled developer of high-impact nature restoration projects. He is privileged to lead a multi-disciplinary team of practitioners, scientists, land managers, software engineers and finance professionals, all deeply committed to restoring natural ecosystems across the UK and beyond.
    Ed is also non-executive director in international manufacturing and service companies, and is trustee of two charities. He previously held global leadership roles at major international banks, specialising in product innovation, risk management, regulatory change, and operational excellence. When offline, Ed enjoys spending time with family and friends in the great outdoors, hiking, kitesurfing, skiing, riding and climbing.

• 26 February: Cooling Systems

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  This session presents the main challenges for cooling in the UK and make recommendations on how the UK can adapt to climate change.

  As the UK’s temperature continues to rise annually, the need for cooling and the cost associated with cooling spaces within buildings and refrigeration within industrial processes is increasing. Businesses with retail space as well as public buildings such as schools and hospitals will see their energy costs increase as the cooling technologies we use today struggle to maintain a comfortable environment.

  Likewise, the manufacturing processes operating in the UK use refrigeration, not just to store and transport the products but also chilling required in the manufacturing process itself. Manufacturing industries such as food & drink, ceramics, chemicals, metals and medicines rely on refrigeration technologies that have to work harder as ambient temperatures rise increasing operating costs.

  Speakers:

  • Sheena Hindocha, Innovate UK Business Connect
  • Graeme Maidment, Dept for Energy Security and Net Zero
  • Prof Judith Evans, London South Bank University