The MACC Hub aims to inform a national climate change adaptation plan and address current barriers around public awareness, policy, legislation and climate data that might be hindering the UK’s ability to adapt to global warming
Oxford is one of eight universities and five climate partnership organisations, working together to help UK prepare for climate change. The OPSIS team will be working with colleagues from Newcastle University and University of East Anglia to combine datasets and models for improved understanding of climate risks and adaptation outcomes at the national scale for the United Kingdom. This will involve integrating ongoing OPSIS research on the DAFNI supported National Infrastructure Resilience Demonstrator (NIRD) with the Open-CLIM.
Using climate model outputs and scenarios from Open-CLIM the NIRD will be used to quantify systemic climate risks in the UK due to infrastructure network failures. This will enable a systems approach to climate risk assessment and adaptation interventions across multiple National Adaption Planning sectors.
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