Climate change is coming home
17 July
As hosts of COP26 and a world leader in tackling climate change, we can use this opportunity to set market-driving targets, share best-practice in how to achieve them and help the world transfer fairly to a net zero economy.
Sadly, the England football team could not quite secure victory in the Euros final and our opponents teased after the match that “football’s coming Rome”. But while we may have been fierce opponents on the pitch, our two nations are coming together to host something with far greater significance off the pitch. In just a few months’ time, Italy and the United Kingdom will jointly host the COP26 Climate Change conference in Glasgow.
Investment in Lincoln’s flood defences continues at new location
Riverside walls at Foss Bank being strengthened
From:
25 May 2021
Work to strengthen riverside walls along Lincoln’s Foss Bank is under way, as part of a £6 million investment in the city’s flood defences.
New steel piles are being driven into the riverbank upstream of Brayford Pool, reinforcing the existing defences and maintaining the area’s standard of protection.
Measures are being taken to reduce the potential impact on residents, including a ‘silent piler’ to significantly lessen both noise and vibration.
The work at Foss Bank is being carried out from a pontoon in the river, reducing the need for road closures and footpath diversions. A river traffic light system is in place with staff on hand to make navigation safe for boaters.
Future Fens flood risk management
Fens flood risk management baseline report now available.
From:
11 May 2021
Phase 1 of the flood risk management work started 3 years ago, to develop a shared understanding of the flood risk challenges in the Great Ouse Fens of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.
Future activity will build on this baselining work to develop flood management options that can deliver flood and drainage infrastructure needed for future generations.
This work is delivering on key commitments to the Fens as featured in the National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy (FCERM) published in 2020.
With a third of the Fens currently below sea level, the area has a network of flood protection assets that are owned and managed by different organisations. Much of this infrastructure is nearing the end of its design life and will soon need significant investment. With the increasing effects of climate change, flood infrastructure is key in providing water resourc
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Each of these with their own fees and procurement, design process and structure.
To make significant changes of the sort we need, the challenges of these sectors need to be addressed using the very best of systems thinking.
In recognition that I’m not an expert on the detail, my colleague Ken Allison is here to help in the discussion.
But, I do know that we are not keeping pace with the acceleration of climate change.
I hope we can discover what the barriers are to our shared objectives, and you can tell me what we might say to Government about how to collectively overcome them.