UC2C Explore the impact of recent weather events on your organisation

Your organisation will have been affected by recent weather events. Exploring the consequences of specific events with colleagues is a way to explore climate-related vulnerabilities in more depth. These can be useful narratives for raising awareness, as well as some providing initial evidence of potential costs.

Sub tasks:

Identify specific severe weather events such as storms, floods or heatwaves that have impacted your organisation. These events could have been flagged up through interviews and workshops held with colleagues (Task UC2B) or may be identified by a search of press stories.

Collate evidence on how the severe weather event(s) that you identified have impacted your organisation. Potential sources of information include:
- Insurance Logs
- Repair and maintenance reports
- Staff time-sheets
- Emergency Records
- Floodline’s Report a Flood online resource
- Interview findings from service leads
- Anecdotal evidence of weather-related impacts and consequences
Produce case studies and/ or a short report describing the impacts and costs of severe weather events that have affected your organisation. Include a description of how and why these impacts and costs may be affected by projected changes in climate.

The sub tasks described above can be combined and used to create a Local Climate Impact Profile project. These projects aim to gather and present information about a large number of severe weather event impacts and consequences and have been successful in helping to communicate and secure buy in for further work to adapt to climate change in some local authorities.
- Read a case study on how Aberdeen City Council used an LCLIP to assess it’s vulnerability to climate change

Resources:

A local climate impacts profile – how to do an LCLIP - UKCP
Weather impacts table

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