The European Environment Agency (EEA) have published an ‘Assessment of global megatrends — extended background analysis’ that CEP contributed to. This technical report complements the State of the Environment Report (SOER) 2015’s Assessment of global megatrends by providing additional information and data on each megatrend. It also provides background information on the research framework and processes that have underpinned the EEA’s megatrend work since 2009.

CEP have contributed to much of the EEA’s forward looking and megatrend work over this time and other related projects supported by CEP include:

• Assessment of global megatrends — an update Global megatrend 3: Changing disease burdens and risks of pandemics.
• EEA forward looking indicators for global Population change and Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
• Mapping Europe’s Future: understanding the implications of global megatrends for European countries. 
• Developing the forward looking component of the European Environment Agency Shared Environment Information System (SEIS) to support improved environmental assessment, including the compilation of catalogue of scenario studies.
• Developing the forward looking component of the European Environment Agency Shared Environment Information System (SEIS) to support improved environmental assessment
• Update to the BLOSSOM project (Bridging Long-term Scenario and Strategy analysis – Organisation and Methods) – support to analysis for long term governance and institutional arrangements
• Support to the EEA Article 5 FLIS project: Developing Forward-looking Information and Services at the national and regional level.
• Support to developing Forward-looking information and services (FLIS) and global megatrends fact sheets/indicators elaboration

For more information please contact Dr William Sheate or Owen White

CEP IS CO-ORGANISING THE FLOOD RESILIENT COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CIWEM, DEFRA AND THE NFF.

The  Flood Resilient Communities: Evaluating the Defra Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder one-day conference will take place on Wednesday 2 December 2015. This is a CPD approved partnership event  on the key lessons learned from the Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder projects on working with communities to improve flood resilience. 

CEP’s Paula Orr and Clare Twigger-Ross and Robbie Craig (Defra) will be presenting the key results of CEP’s recent work on Evaluating the Defra Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder.

For the full Event Programme click here.

CEP presenting at inaugural Scottish Green Infrastructure Forum conference

CEP’s Dr Peter Phillips is presenting at the inaugural Scottish Green Infrastructure Forum (SGIF) conference – Green infrastructure: A growing need – in Glasgow on 6th October 2015. Peter is talking in the Green Infrastructure and the Planning System session about the role of ecosystem services supporting better planning for urban green infrastructure.   

CEP at Scottish Resilient Communities Conference: Resilient people in a Resilient nation

CEP’s Dr Clare Twigger-Ross will be talking about community resilience at the Scottish Resilient Communities Conference on 23 September 2015 in Edinburgh. The presentation is titled “What does the evidence tell us about community resilience, and why does it matter?” and draws on recent work undertaken for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (Evidence review: Locality and community climate change resilience). This one day seminar is aimed at bringing together communities, voluntary sector organisations and public sector emergency responders to explore what’s happening in community resilience across Scotland.

CEP is jointly leading a workshop in Switzerland, with the Swiss FOEN, on the implications of global megatrends for EU member states

CEP’s Owen White will be in Bern, Switzerland on 21-22 September, to lead a workshop bringing members of the European Environment Agency network of environmental foresight experts together to discuss and develop method proposals related to downscaling the implications of global megatrends at the national scale. The workshop will focus on how EU member states can identify and prioritise potential implications of global megatrends, and link these with national environmental information and indicators. The workshop is being hosted and jointly led by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), who have contracted CEP to help develop this method.

CEP participating in Natural Capital Initiative ecosystems approach dialogue

CEP’s Dr Peter Phillips is a participating specialist in a dialogue organised by the Natural Capital Initiative on Putting the ecosystems approach into practice. Peter’s PhD developed an ecosystems approach based methodology for urban land use planning. He also led CEP’s work evaluating integrated land use policy for the Scottish Government and Forestry Commission Scotland . The dialogue is taking place at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation on 28th September 2015. 

Photo courtesy of Katy Walters

THE EEA HAS PUBLISHED TWO ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS CONTRIBUTED TO BY CEP

The European Environment Agency has published two of the indicators CEP contributed to under the recent project providing ‘Support to developing Forward-looking information and services (FLIS) and global megatrends fact sheets/indicators elaboration‘. 

The indicators look at global Population change and Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

CEP is co-organising the Flood Resilient Communities conference in partnership with CIWEM, Defra and the NFF.

CEP is co-organising the  Flood Resilient Communities: Evaluating the Defra Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder conference on Wednesday 2 December 2015. This is a partnership event between CIWEM, Defra, National Flood Forum (NFF) and Collingwood Environmental Planning on the key lessons learned from the Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder projects on working with communities to improve flood resilience. 

CEP has recently completed the Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder Evaluation for Defra (2013 – 2015).