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13 Oct 2020 - 14 Apr 2021
Digital event
Produced by:
Convened by:
13 Oct 2020 - 14 Apr 2021
Digital event
After considerable discussion and research, we have taken the decision to transform our 2020 event from a face to face event into a series of four digital sessions tackling some of the major challenges of our time. The sessions will run from October 2020, up to our in-person event in Telford confirmed for 29th June – 1st July 2021. Additionally, we will host a digital ceremony for the Flood & Coast Excellence Awards 2020 on December 9th.
03 Feb 202109:30-11:30Register now
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Session 3: The new era of digital innovation in FCERM |Add to calendar|The way we communicate, use, and receive information is constantly changing and that change has been accelerated by the Coronavirus pandemic. This change has also highlighted opportunities for communications and information technology to help the FCERM sector be more strategic than reactive. We have researched case-studies across the industry to find new and pioneering technologies that demonstrate how digital innovation can make FCRM more responsive, inclusive, and efficient.
The session will include examples from across academia, government, private, and public sectors and include an opportunity for you to get involved in the discussion on the future of our digital ambitions.
Speakers:This session will feature a short presentation from our Microsoft keynote speaker, followed by a deep dive session featuring 5 technical talks and a panel discussion. We will then move into a conversation about the Flood & Coast community network, a digital collaborative networking space, where people could share ideas and stay in touch all year-round. We will wrap up the session with the CIWEM Young Environmentalist of the Year award.
Welcome to the third session of Flood & Coast
Eve Joseph | Sustainability Customer Engagement Lead, Microsoft Keynote speaker
Myra Hunt | Joint Chief Digital Officer, Defra Deep dive session moderator
Freya Crunden |Senior Environmental Consultant, Atkins Putting sustainability at the heart of appraisals and designs using the SEED tools
Frazer Rhodes | Service Delivery Specialist, Environment Agency Local Emergency Alerts for the UK: Saving lives through Cell Broadcast technology
Tony Riggs | Head of Technology Innovation, Defra Digital Technology is going to instigate change more in the next 10 years than the last 50, what is coming next?
Chris Skinner | University of Hull The 'Help Callum' 360 VR Flood Experience, University of Hull, University of Lancaster and EA
Dr Alison Lloyd Williams | Lancaster University Landscapes to Lifescapes Digital Flood Exhibition
Jim Walker | Flood Digital Manager, FCRM Digital and Skills and Catherine Wright | Director Digital and Skills, Flood and Coastal Risk Management The Flood & Coast community network: 2021 digital hack
Catherine Wright | Director Digital and Skills, Flood and Coastal Risk Management The Young Environmentalist Award presentation
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14 Apr 202109:30-11:30Register now
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Session 4: Innovative investment in FCERM |Add to calendar|Finding new sources of funding is not a new challenge. There are already examples of where new sources of partnership funding have helped to enable schemes to go ahead, however the new FCERM Strategy has identified that all risk management authorities need to improve their skills and capabilities in this field.
This session will look at the strategic context and explore the practical application of new and innovative funding solutions, including green finance initiatives within FCERM. It will highlight how the industry needs to reframe its ambition and discover the potential for co-investment.
The session will showcase live proactive and innovative funding mechanisms through great case studies. We will better understand the emerging approaches and green investment opportunities, emerging collaborations, practical international examples and the challenges, areas the sector will need to address in broadening innovation and investment in FCERM.
Speakers:This webinar will feature short overviews by the host and each speaker looking at the Innovative funding from a strategic perspective, followed by questions from the audience. Practical case study examples will then be shared by a ranged of speakers, with a further opportunity for the audience to ask questions and enable extensive consideration of the issues of most importance to delegates.
Emma Harvey | Green Finance Institute Chair and moderator
James Vaccaro | Special Advisor, Triodos Bank Exploring innovative finance from an international perspective
Speaker to be confirmed Creating public value through state intervention – the Value of Everything
Jacqui Bandy | Environment Agency The economic journey for the River Thames scheme, highlighting the case for co-investing
Sam Evans | Great Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) A local Authority perspective to financing natural environment solutions to address the climate emergency, including habitat and carbon banking
Kit England | Scotland Climate Ready Clyde and Sniffer and Climate XChange What’s the adaptation finance gap?
Charlotte Spliethoff | Queensland Reconstruction Authority Exploring investment practice from an international (Australian) perspective
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09 Dec 202009:30-11:30Access digital report
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Session 2: Climate emergency: global leadership on adaptationAs we approach the COP26 climate change summit in November 2021, we will consider how we are tackling climate change in the UK and overseas, and how experience from across the globe can help to achieve the government’s COP26 ambition to “put adaptation at the heart of everything we do”.
Chaired by Environment Agency Chair and Global Commission on Adaptation commissioner Emma Howard Boyd, this session will look at where the most acute challenges are being faced across the world. How are these nations and communities adapting? What can we learn from their experience? How can it be applied in the UK setting? And critically, how can we lead on climate-resilient recovery from Covid-19 and achieve our net-zero ambitions?
As the Global Commission state: “we face a crisis”, but “we can do it”.
Speakers:This session will feature short overviews by the chair and each speaker, followed by a panel discussion chaired by Emma Howard-Boyd. The second part of the session will premiere the Environment Agency Flood and Coast Excellence Awards.
Emma Howard-Boyd | Chair, Environment Agency Chair and moderator
Cora van Nieuwenhuizen | Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management, Netherlands Global adaptation to water and climate change – an international perspective
Dr. Saleemul Huq | Director of the International Centre for Climate Change & Development Advancing adaptation in Bangladesh: From early warning to recovery
Achieving radical progress on adaptation and resilience at COP26
Achieving business buy-in to adaptation and decarbonisation strategies
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13 Oct 202009:30-11:30Access digital report
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Session 1: Creating climate resilient placesThis session will showcase both the government’s new Flood policy statement and the Environment Agency’s FCERM Strategy, setting out the ambitions over the coming decades. You will hear about the vital role nature based solutions will play in this, as well as how communities will be at the heart of the new approach as we face more extreme weather.
The session will consider the role of land use planning, which is so instrumental in shaping the places we live and work. You will hear how the planning system can and should help create more resilience communities through its available tools and levers, and how these may need to change in coming years.
Speakers:This session will feature short overviews by the host and each speaker, followed by a panel discussion chaired by the host. Following this the panel will take questions from the audience to enable extensive consideration of the issues of most importance to delegates.
Terry Fuller | CIWEM and John Curtin | Environment Agency Welcome to Flood and Coast Digital
Hugh Ellis | Town and Country Planning Association Chair and moderator
Jacky Huson | Southwell Flood Forum Putting Communities at the heart of Climate Resilient places
Karen Thomas | Head of coastal management, Coastal Partnership East The impact of coastal change on communities and how to adapt
Rebecca Pow MP | Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Defra FCERM policy statement: Government’s priorities for managing flooding and coastal change in the face of climate change
Sir James Bevan | Chief Executive, Environment Agency FCERM Strategy: A new direction for a resilient nation
Tony Juniper | Chair, Natural England Nature-based solutions and their role in creating climate resilient places
The virtual panel will be joined by Julie Foley | Enviornment Agency and James Perkins | DEFRA.
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