Practitioner perspective Merylyn Hedger local government, NGO, University UKCIP, Environment Agency. (N and S)

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Practitioner perspectiveMerylyn Hedgerlocal
government, NGO, UniversityUKCIP, Environment
Agency. (N and S)
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Environment Agengy

• Delivers the operational side on environmental
  protection and undertakes monitoring.
• Covers water resources, flooding, air and water
  quality etc.
• Is responsible eg for Thames barrier which
  protects London, currently being redesigned up to
  2100.

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Outline

• What works
• What are the issues
• What SBSTA can do (priorities)

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What works phases

• Awareness raising,
• Support- guidance for studies, scoping studies,
  then quantitative
• Develop/modify standards policies with CC
  factored in
• Let others then get on with it
• MAINSTREAMING PROCESS

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Important

• Communication-links to global level and
  mitigation vital and valuable.
• Work with specialised target policy communities
  in partnerships regional/ local/ sectoral
• Keep balance between doing and talking.

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Need

• Leadership and resources to mobilise effort-
  small support group.
• Time to negotiate- CC facilitators
• Underpinning tools (scenarios etc.)
• Disseminate with good communication products
  (NGOs)

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Mainstreaming means that

• CC is in other departments, organisations
  research plans, business plans, strategic plans
• CC can help drive existing agendas (water,
  flooding, building, resource productivity and
  waste management)

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Issues

• How handle very long term infrastructure with
  uncertainty e.g nuclear waste
• Keeping attention with other environmental
  problems
• Handling the CC package droughts and floods

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What SBSTA can do

• Create new networks of practitioners
• New perspectives on capacity building (exchanges
  N/N S/N S/S)
• Share best practice on tools/ scenarios
• Develop stock of implementation case studies

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Methodology issues

• Keep it accessible- TIME CONSTRAINTS ON READING
• IPCC done by academics - new types of Technical
  Reports- joint ownership of research and
  practitioner communities?

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SBSTA can

• Through Governments, lead identification of key
  processes outside (aid agenda, disaster
  management, EU Directives) and make linkages
• Work out models of delivery (streamline APF)