Thursday 14th November 9.00am-1.00pm, followed by networking lunch Venue: Delta (Marriott) Hotel, Queen Square, Liverpool The Liverpool Institute for Sustainable Coasts and Oceans is organising a high-profile event, The Maritime Contribution to Net Zero, bringing together research, business and government communities. This will be an invaluable opportunity to explore the opportunities for collaboration in working towards decarbonising ports and the maritime
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Closed – Booking now open for Climate Change on the North West Coast conference 29 & 30th March 2023
We are pleased to announce that booking is now open. The North West Coastal Forum is working with the North West and North Wales Coastal Group and Our Future Coast to deliver a conference on climate change exploring the challenges facing the North West’s coastal communities and working with nature to adapt to coastal
Closed consultation – UK Domestic Maritime Decarbonisation: Plotting the Course to Zero
Closed 6th October 2022 The Department for Transport is seeking views and evidence for the optimal pathway to achieve net zero emissions in 2050 for the domestic maritime sector, and barriers to maritime decarbonisation and the technological, operational and policy options that could be employed to address these barriers. The consultation also provides a space for
Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership: Key Challenges and Emerging Issues Publication
MCCIP has published a suite of outputs on ‘responding to key challenges in UK marine climate change’, building on the evidence presented in the latest MCCIP report card (2020) and providing a snapshot of the key issues facing the UK marine climate change community and guidance on how to address them. The outputs are designed
National Strategy for Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) in Wales and the Wales Flood Map Published
The Welsh Government had published a new FCERM Strategy for Wales. This sets out the long-term policies for managing flooding, together with measures to improve planning and preparation for, and adaptation to, climate change which will be taken forward over the next decade by organisations including Natural Resources Wales, local authorities and water companies. The
National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy for England
The Environment Agency has published a strategy setting out a vision of a nation ready for, and resilient to, flooding and coastal change – today, tomorrow and to the year 2100. It sits alongside the Government’s policy statement on flood and coastal erosion risk management (see separate news item). The National FCERM Strategy sets out
Flood and coastal erosion risk management: policy statement
This policy statement sets out the Government’s policy on flood and coastal erosion risk management and their long-term ambition to create a nation more resilient to future flood and coastal erosion risk. It forms part of their wider commitment to tackle climate change. It has been informed by the Environment Agency’s consultation exercise on the
The Irish Sea in the 2020s – Survey – closed
This survey is now closed. The Irish Sea Maritime Forum, supported by the University of Liverpool, is conducting an Irish-sea wide survey to look to the future and the changing context of the Irish Sea in the 2020s. The aim is to develop a comprehensive picture of the future for the Irish Sea and
MCCIP Report Card 2020 Launched
The Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership has launched a new Report Card for 2020 which provides the latest update on scientific understanding of climate change impacts on the UK’s coast and seas. For the first time the report includes the impacts of climate change on oxygen, cultural heritage and transport and infrastructure. The report card
Irish Sea Maritime Forum Biennial Conference 2019, Cardiff, 15 January
Book by Friday 11th January – some places still available at this free conference which considers marine planning, marine protected areas and climate change at an Irish Sea-wide scale. The aim of the event is to bring together stakeholders from across the Irish Seas to to learn about issues of current and shared interest and