Thursday 16th February 2012 at Greenmount College, Antrim.

This conference will present the results of the major UK Climate Change Risk Assessment exercise and will provide information and tools, minimising future costs, which will allow you to plan ahead to ensure that we protect our people, environment and infrastructure from excessive damage.

Speakers will include:

Alex Hill, (Met Office) How is our climate likely to change?

Dr Tom Downing (Global Climate Adaptation Partnership) International implications of climate change

Helen Udale–Clarke (HR Wallingford Ltd) Findings of UK Climate Change Risk Assessment

Kat Deyes (Frontier Economics) The cost implications

TBC (Department of the Environment) Government response to the challenge

Paddy Brow (NI Water) NI Water climate change adaptation strategy

Anna Beswick (Adaptation Scotland) Adaptation made simple

Dr Ian Leitch (Omagh District Council) Climate change a hard sell

Annika Clements (Climate Northern Ireland) Supporting adaptation in Northern Ireland

David Porter (Rivers Agency) Dealing with the impacts

Register for the event here.