Professor Iain Stewart (of BBC fame), Director of the Sustainability Earth Institute at the University of Plymouth, and Paul Barnard, Service Director for Strategic Planning & Infrastructure for Plymouth City Council, ‘set the scene’ of the Climate Emergency, the situation in Plymouth and the wider South West regarding effects of climate change on us, and the City’s annual Climate Emergency Action Plan (CEAP). Hamish Hall, WSP’s Head of Water team in the UK will explain how we are increasingly having to design with flooding and rising sea levels in mind with examples in the SW.

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