Webinar #14 in the RECLAIM Network Webinar Series took place on the 5th July 2023.
Webinars will share best-practice and facilitate knowledge exchange between practitioners, researchers, policymakers, businesses, environmental groups, charities and individuals interested in implementation of green-blue-grey infrastructure for making our vulnerable living spaces more healthy, sustainable and resilient.
Speakers
Gwilym Owen
RECLAIM Advisory Board Member, Resilience Officer, Cardiff City Council
Title of the talk: “ Resilient Cardiff – How the city is taking steps to mitigate against and adapt to climate change”
Biography
Gwilym is a Resilience Officer at Cardiff Council. His principal roles involve emergency, resilience and risk planning pursuant to the requirements of the Civil Contingencies Act. As surface water flooding is one of the principal risks affecting Cardiff, Gwilym has an interest in an integrated catchment management approach to addressing the dangers to the city posed by the effects of climate change on the 3 main rivers that Cardiff sits on. This includes an interest in the opportunities that green and blue infrastructure can achieve as relevant adaptation and mitigation solutions.
Since Cardiff Council declared a climate emergency in 2019, and the subsequent One Planet Cardiff Strategy vision for a Carbon Neutral City by 2030, Gwilym has been successful in achieving Carbon Literate Organisation status for the council through the training of key staff via the Carbon Literacy Project.
Simon Dooley
Team Leader Flood and Coastal Risk Management, Cardiff Council
Title of the talk: “Cardiff Coastal Defence Scheme – Defending against Coastal Climate Change”
Biography
Simon Dooley is the Team Leader for Cardiff Councils Flood and Coastal Risk Management Team who operate as The Local Lead Flood Authority (LLFA). The LLFA have a wide range of statutory duties including the mitigation of flood risk from an ever changing climate. Cardiff Councils coastal scheme is an extensive project that will protect over 1500 hoes from Coastal and Fluvial flood risk.
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