The Adaptation Conversation
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One-on-one conversations with the leading thinkers and doers in climate change adaptation and resilience. A podcast by climate change practitioners for climate change practitioners, we speak to world-experts to understand the latest best practices and explore the risks and opportunities that climate change brings. These podcasts are brought to you by the Acclimatise: www.acclimatise.uk.com. Acclimatise is a leading consulting firm providing expertise in climate change adaptation and risk management.
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United States
Description:
One-on-one conversations with the leading thinkers and doers in climate change adaptation and resilience. A podcast by climate change practitioners for climate change practitioners, we speak to world-experts to understand the latest best practices and explore the risks and opportunities that climate change brings. These podcasts are brought to you by the Acclimatise: www.acclimatise.uk.com. Acclimatise is a leading consulting firm providing expertise in climate change adaptation and risk management.
Language:
English
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http://www.acclimatise.uk.com/
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Episodes
How much will it cost to meet the Paris temperature goals? With Professor Detlef Van Vuuren
4/21/2020
The cumulative costs of achieving the 1.5˚C temperature target outlined in the Paris agreement could be as high as 100 trillion US dollars, a new study has found. However, researchers found that there was a wide range of uncertainty in the forecasts with the low-end estimate being 10 trillion US dollars. In this Conversation on Climate Change Adaptation, we speak to the study's lead author, Professor Detlef Van Vuuren, who works at PPL Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency, and lectures...
Duration:00:15:06
Communicating Climate Risk and Adaptation With Dr Adam Corner
4/2/2020
Knowing how to talk about climate change impacts and the actions taken to curb it isn’t always easy. One of the first things communications specialists will say is that you need to know your audience. Recent research conducted in the UK in November 2019 show that there has been a massive shift in the public’s perceptions about climate change. Climate change came second only to Brexit when respondents were asked which were the main issues that the country would face in the next 20 years....
Duration:00:35:11
Making research work for others with Dr Catherine Grasham and Alice Chautard
3/23/2020
Making research work for others with Dr Catherine Grasham and Alice Chautard by Acclimatise
Duration:00:13:48
Adaptation and Water Security with Dr Catherine Grasham & Dr Ellen Dyer
3/23/2020
Adaptation and Water Security with Dr Catherine Grasham & Dr Ellen Dyer by Acclimatise
Duration:00:12:20
Flood Prediction with Dr Louise Arnal
12/16/2019
In this podcast, we hear from Dr Louise Arnal, a Flood Forecast Product Designer at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) on the advancements that have been made in flood prediction and how it can help policy makers when making decisions about adaptation and resilience measures. @ArnalLouise @ECMWF
Duration:00:28:05
Climate & banking: Chaitanya Kommukuri, Yes Bank.
10/11/2019
Financial institutions around the world are beginning to wake up to the reality that climate change will have material impacts on their loan and investment portfolios. Since the Financial Stability Board's Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) released its recommendations in 2017, banks and other financial institutions have been working to understand how climate risks impact their businesses. Mich of the focus of these efforts has been in the EU and North America, however...
Duration:00:13:56
Climate & Law: Wynne Lawrence and Nigel Brook: Clyde & Co
8/1/2019
In this Acclimatise Conversation on Climate Change Adaptation, we speak with Clyde & Co lawyers Wynne Lawrence and Nigel Brook, about the emerging field of climate liability risk and the pioneering work that the firm is doing to advise its clients about how to respond. In September 2015 the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, gave his seminal 'Tragedy of the Horizon's' speech, to the insurance market at Lloyd's of London. In it, he highlighted the severe threats posed by climate...
Duration:00:21:51
Climate and law: Sarah Barker, Special Counsel and Head of Climate Risk Governance at MinterEllison
7/1/2019
Climate change is increasingly being understood as an issue of financial risk to corporates. This has brought the issue to the attention of corporate lawyers like Sarah Barker, Special Counsel and Head of Climate Risk Governance at MinterEllison, the largest commercial law firm in the Asia Pacific. For over six years, Sarah has been a leading voice in the field of climate risk governance for business. As climate change is now widely accepted as a financial risk issue, it necessarily enlivens...
Duration:00:28:37
Climate and law: Marcela Scarpellini: right. based on science
6/20/2019
Climate change and its impacts cause hundreds of billions of dollars of damage each year. As the scale of losses increases, so too will the number of legal cases apportioning blame to those most responsible. There have already been over one thousand litigation cases related to climate change, a number that is expected to rise dramatically as climate change continues, and legislation and regulations increase. However, there is another factor driving the number of legal cases: advances in...
Duration:00:11:21
The Green Climate Fund in Guyana: Janelle Christian, Head of the Office of Climate Change, Guyana
7/24/2018
Climate change is already having serious impacts for Guyana, 90% of the population live on the coastal plain, less than 1 meter above sea level. 75% of the country's economic activity also takes place in this region. In 2005 Guyana suffered a catastrophic flood, which affected over a third of its population and cost over 60% of the country's GDP. Tackling climate change is, therefore, an urgent necessity for Guyana, but cutting greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate impacts...
Duration:00:07:07
Tourism in the Caribbean: Samantha Bray, Center for Responsible Travel
6/14/2018
The relationship between climate change, environmental degradation and tourism is a complicated one. On the one hand, tourism can be an environmental stressor, with tourists flocking to sometimes fragile environments and the sector accounting, by some estimates, for as much as 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. On the other hand, tourism is often one of the most important economic drivers of climate-vulnerable nations, bringing investment to regions that has helped them to increase their...
Duration:00:12:46
Hurricane Irma: Angela Burnett, Author of The Irma Diaries
5/25/2018
In 2017 the Caribbean was struck by a series of hurricanes, the largest of which, hurricane Irma, was the strongest open Atlantic storm on record. Irma's peak wind speeds reached 180mph as it caused catastrophic damage to the islands of Barbuda, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin, Anguilla and the Virgin Islands. Today we hear from someone who experienced the full force of Irma first-hand. Angela Burnett, a lifelong resident of the British Virgin Islands was working as the territory's climate...
Duration:00:13:51
Climate finance: Stacy Swann on blended climate finance
6/22/2017
In this episode of Acclimatise Conversations on Climate Change Adaptation, we speak with Stacy Swann, CEO of Climate Finance Advisors, a Washington DC-based firm that works specifically on climate finance and specialises in blending public and private finance to catalyse climate change investment. We learn how blended finance can help to boost investment in climate resilience projects, providing private investors with a multi-trillion dollar investment opportunity. The world's infrastructure...
Duration:00:16:49
Disaster Risk Reduction: Dr Robert Glasser head of the UNISDR
5/23/2017
Natural disasters take many forms, from floods, to landslides, from extreme heat to massive storms. Planning for these disasters used to be a matter of looking at similar events that happened in the past. However, climate change is beginning to change all that. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) estimates that 9 in 10 natural disasters are linked to the climate. With climate change, extreme events are becoming more severe, frequent and uncertain. Recently the...
Duration:00:11:22
Ports: Marc Eisma, Port of Rotterdam
5/19/2017
In the previous episode of Acclimatise Conversations on Climate Change Adaptation we spoke with Isabelle Ryckbost of the European Seaports Association to find out about what ports were doing do adapt to climate impacts. One of the climate leaders that Isabelle mentioned was the Port of Rotterdam. In this episode, we investigate what steps Europe's busiest seaport has put in place to make sure that it is resilient in the face of a changing climate. To learn more we caught up with Marc Eisma,...
Duration:00:10:47
Ports: Isabelle Ryckbost, Secretary General of the European Sea Ports Organisation
4/27/2017
Ports are vital hubs in global trade networks, linking all of the goods transported by sea with land-based industry and consumers. They are also vulnerable to climate change and its impacts. To find out how ports in Europe are responding to climate change Acclimatise spoke with Isabelle Ryckbost, Secretary General of the European Sea Ports Organisation. Speaking in the wake of her keynote speech at the recent NavClimate conference, Isabelle explains that climate risks to physical port...
Duration:00:09:08
Climate change through a lense: Ashley Cooper, Environmental Photographer
4/6/2017
Ashley Cooper is the only person on earth to have photographed climate change and its impacts on every continent on the planet. He has spent the last 13 years, capturing thousands of images that show the devastating effects and captivating beauty of climate change. Now for the first time, Ashley has collected 500 of his best images and released them in a book "Images From a Warming Planet". Learn more about his book at http://www.imagesfromawarmingplanet.net/ Ashley spoke to Acclimatise on a...
Duration:00:10:33
Wastewater: Johannes Cullman, Head of Climate and Water, World Meteorological Organisation
3/21/2017
Climate change impacts on water are well documented, from floods to droughts hydrological climate impacts affect the lives and livelihoods of millions of people around the world. One aspect of the issue that is, perhaps, less well reported is that of climate impacts on wastewater. In an effort to correct this, the UN has made wastewater its theme for this year's World Water Day. The issue of wastewater and water reuse is becoming increasingly important. The vast majority of wastewater...
Duration:00:08:42
Climate finance: Paul Steele, Chief Economist, International Institute for Environment & Development
3/17/2017
Delivering climate finance to fund local-level adaptation is a difficult challenge. In our latest Conversation on Climate Change Adaptation, Acclimatise spoke with Paul Steele, Chief Economist at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). Paul, explains that just 10% of international public climate finance reaches the local level. This is particularly concerning for adaptation initiatives, which are heavily dependent on funding reaching the local-level programmes and...
Duration:00:15:57
Project finance: Nancy Saich (EIB) and Craig Davies (EBRD) on integrating climate risk
8/11/2016
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and other multilateral development banks invest large sums of money into infrastructure and development projects every year. There is increasing pressure for these projects to incorporate climate risk and resilience considerations into their design and development processes. Ensuring that long-term investments are resilient to climate change and its impacts is a major challenge for investors like...
Duration:00:24:58