Publications

This evidence summary has been prepared by Climate Ready Clyde to support the eight planning authorities within Glasgow City Region with the evidence gathering stage of the Local Development Plan process. It provides an overview of regional sources of information on climate risks and climate adaptation developed by Climate Ready Clyde, as well as signposting […]Read More »

Glasgow is already feeling the impacts of climate change. This includes milder, wetter winters, more summer heatwaves, and more frequent, heavier downpours. We need to build resilience to these impacts and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions that are contributing to climate change. This means our neighbourhoods will need to look and feel very different if […]Read More »

On the 15th of November, Sniffer, in partnership with Climate Ready Clyde, hosted an in-person event for communities and community organisations in Glasgow City Region, supported by Adaptation Scotland and local authorities. The aim of the event was to create a foundation to support more meaningful, wider community participation in place-based climate adaptation and resilience, […]Read More »

Sniffer are looking to appoint a suitably qualified consultant to undertake an independent assessment of progress for the Climate Ready Clyde initiative. Sniffer provides the Secretariat function for Climate Ready Clyde.  Climate Ready Clyde is a cross-sector initiative funded by 13 member organisations and supported by the Scottish Government to create a shared vision, strategy and action plan for an adapting and resilient Glasgow City […]Read More »

Aligned with Climate Ready Clyde, Sniffer are supporting the Open University and Ming-Chuan University in Taiwan to undertake British Academy-funded research in Glasgow City and Taipei. The research aims to understand how communities in both cities have experienced extreme hot weather, and how trees and green spaces might help to reduce heat risk in the […]Read More »

One of the stretch targets of the Glasgow City Region Climate Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan is to increase the resilience of over 140,000 of the region's most vulnerable people to the impacts of climate change. To help monitor progress against this target, and to help decision-makers across the City Region to prioritise adaptation action where it is most needed, we have published a new Glasgow City Region Climate Vulnerability Map.Read More »

As part of Scotland’s Climate Week 2022, we are hosting a special webinar for elected members from across Glasgow City Region’s eight local authorities. There is a choice of two repeated sessions: Tuesday 27 September, 10:00 – 11:00 Friday 30 September, 14:00 – 15:00 Online registration is now open. Glasgow City Region’s climate is already […]Read More »

The last twelve months have seen a step change for Climate Ready Clyde. In June 2021 we published the first Glasgow City Region Climate Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan. Recognised as both a national and international exemplar, the Strategy and Action Plan sets out an ambitious vision for a City Region flourishing in the future […]Read More »

Our response to the Scottish Government's NPF4 consultation in March 2022 focused on the key issues relevant to climate adaptation in Glasgow City Region, highlighting alignment with the Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan, and where the Framework needs to be strengthened.Read More »

We are delighted to announce new internal arrangements that elevates Climate Ready Clyde into a new phase of delivery of the Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan. As we move to a new structure over the coming months, early, interim arrangements are now in place.  After four years, Prof James Curran MBE is stepping down as […]Read More »

This report summarizes the research and the learning in the use of culture for transformational adaptation undertaken by Creative Carbon Scotland as part of the Clyde Rebuilt project, Creative Carbon Scotland undertook into various ‘cultural’ elements of the work. These were a unique facet of the project which spanned the whole process from beginning to […]Read More »

Roddy Yarr, Assistant Director of Sustainability at University of Strathclyde and Board Member for Climate Ready Clyde outlines his thoughts on what it would look like for GCR to be flourishing in its future climate, and how the University of Strathclyde is contributing to get us there. I was recently asked what I think the […]Read More »

This report is the synthesis of a literature review which was undertaken as part of the Clyde Rebuilt project to help define transformational adaptation and inform the development of Climate Ready Clyde’s Innovation Portfolio. The review has explored the theoretical literature but has also tried to focus on practical aspects that can be taken forward […]Read More »

In our most recent Blog, Board deputy member for West Dunbartonshire Council Adam Armour-Florence, sets out his thinking on what transformational adaptation looks like to him. Transformational Adaptation In his position as the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon said in 2015: “We are the first generation to be able to end poverty, and […]Read More »

How does adaptation differ from mitigation? What is net-zero emissions? Climate change terms can be confusing and hard to grasp. This glossary has definitions of key words related to the Clyde Rebuilt. Our list breaks tradition and is in a hopefully useful order instead of alphabetical order. (If you think we should add any other […]Read More »

New collaboration sees Clyde Rebuilt help Glasgow City Region innovate to flourish in a future climate The citizens of the Glasgow City Region face the risk of more frequent floods and other bad weather events, resulting in damage to homes, roads and railways, and stresses to hospitals and emergency services as global temperatures rise due […]Read More »

Climate Ready Clyde is involved in the steering group for the University of Strathclyde’s Climate Neutral, Climate Resilient Innovation District for Glasgow. Transforming our city and region to make it climate resilient and carbon neutral is going to take some radical thinking and decision making. The University of Strathclyde is leading a significant piece of […]Read More »

Introduction Download the full PDF paper here. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is a major crisis. The short-term response in the UK, Scotland and the Glasgow City Region (GCR) has rightly focused on the public health emergency, but with accompanying rescue and support measures to protect incomes, businesses and the economy. Despite this response, a major […]Read More »

Cultural Adaptations is a Creative Europe project, led by Creative Carbon Scotland with partners in three EU countries, on culture’s role in society’s adaptation to climate, and the Adaptation issues that cultural organisations need to think about. The Project Cultural Adaptations is a co-operation project funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, running from October […]Read More »

Climate Ready Clyde is one of the case studies in the Horizon 2020 project, COACCH (Co-designing the Assessment of Climate CHange costs) COACCH is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and carried out by a consortium of 14 European organisations. The final objective of COACCH is to produce an improved downscaled […]Read More »