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| Climate Change Adaptation Services | Knowledge Exchange Services | Science Interpretation Services | Training | Independent Expert Reviews |
| Your Needs | Service | Description |
| Does my organisation need to worry about climate change? | Introductory | The science explained, policy drivers, supply chain impacts. |
| How can I raise awareness of the need for climate change adaptation in my organisation? | Raising awareness | Training and workshops. Exploring impacts and vulnerabilities. Signposting support organisations, data and tools. |
| Which areas of my operations are vulnerable to climate change? | Risk-based assessment | Scoping the threats and opportunities. Risk analysis. Gaps in existing strategy. |
| How can my organisation address its vulnerabilities to climate change? | Strategic development | Leadership. Goals. Objective setting. |
| How can my organisation start to take action? | Planning | Capacity and resources assessment. Writing an action plan. Data gathering. |
| How can my organisation test and improve its strategy? | Monitoring and Review | Using data to test plan effectiveness. Continuous improvement. |
| Your Needs | Service | Description |
| To develop climate change mitigation and/or climate change adaptation policies. | Knowledge Exchange | Identify and understand scientific research results, their uncertainties and consequences. Identify national and international policy drivers. Facilitate engagement with leading researchers. |
| To commission, influence, direct or exploit research into weather or climate change; to engage stakeholders in weather and climate change research. | Knowledge Exchange | Provide explanations of the science to non-experts; identify and promote needs of stakeholders and potential users; identify researchable needs; organise information exchange events; write communication materials. |
| Product development. | Knowledge Exchange | Identify and facilitate access to weather and climate data and software tools. Build working relationships with leading UK research institutes. |
| Your Needs | Service | Description |
| Development of a business model for exploitation of environmental data | Business model development | Assess potential benefits; market assessment; product identification; market access; analyse capacity to deliver; competitors; skills assessment; risk analysis. Write a costed plan. |
| To understand how weather and climate information - currently available and future possible - affects your policy, strategy, plans or operations. | Weather and climate interpretation | Identify, review and explain available weather and climate information. Characterise future research. Engage with stakeholders eg workshops. Make recommendations. |
| To commission, influence, direct or exploit research into weather or climate change; to engage stakeholders in weather and climate change research. | Knowledge transfer | Provide explanations of the science to non-experts; identify and promote needs of stakeholders and potential users; identify researchable needs; organise information exchange events; write communication materials. |
| Your Needs | Service | Description |
| Raise awareness of climate change | Climate Change Seminar | Presentation of the scientific facts and what they mean for your operations, customers and markets. Question and answer session. Suitable for leaders, managers, planners and implementers. |
| To co-ordinate management of severe weather response or climate change planning across your organisation | Weather and climate workshop | Weather and climate information. Climate risk assessment and solving weather problems in teams. Suitable for small (6-10) cross-departmental groups. |
| Developing a leadership stance on climate change | Climate change leadership. | Understanding and communicating the key science. Integrating adaptation and mitigation to climate change. CSR, sustainability and risk management issues. Understanding UK, European and international policy drivers. |
| Enable trainers to use weather and climate change material in their courses | Train the trainer | Support and development of materials for teachers and college lecturers |
| Your Needs | Service | Description |
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Assessment review | Critical analysis. Identification of any scientific errors or omissions. Recommendations for improvement. Signposting relevant information. |
| To develop a new strategy on the impacts of weather on your business, or on climate change | Status review | Write a report summarizing the key scientific and policy issues affecting your strategy options. |
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