CXC Newsletter: October 2024
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We're Scotland's centre of expertise on climate change, connecting research and policy.
Our highlights this month include introducing our new project manager Kay White, three new research reports, our new podcast episode on healthy soils, and news on the energy transition event we co-hosted with UKERC a few weeks ago.
1. New CXC Project Manager – Kay White
I’m delighted to join the ClimateXChange team as the new Project Manager for Climate resilience and social change, seconded from my Scottish Government post in the Climate Change Adaptation team.
I joined the CXC team after a busy few months preparing the third Scottish National Adaptation Plan for publication. The SNAP3, for short, sets out the actions that the Scottish Government and partners will take from 2024 to 2029 to respond to the impacts of climate change, covering the delivery of over 200 policies and actions. These actions include improving flood warnings, increasing the resilience of our railways and strengthening our new national network of Climate Action Hubs.
CXC research has been vital for the evidence base informing many aspects of the SNAP3, and the recently published report on monitoring the outcomes of the plan will ensure we can determine progress made at the end of its five-year period.
I look forward to working with project teams over the coming months to deliver more research that can help Scotland deal with the climate emergency.
2. Energy market reform workshop
We are planning a small expert workshop in the coming weeks examining research and policy related to energy market reform. With a limited number of spaces, we do not plan to open to general registration.
If you are interested in attending, please contact our Project Manager for Climate and energy, Dr Nicola Dunn: [email protected]
3. Understanding Scotland’s energy transition
On 3 October, we co-hosted an event with the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) to discuss recent research findings and policy developments on Scotland’s energy transition.
Discussions addressed key parts of the Scottish Government’s forthcoming Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan, including local, regional and community energy; building efficiency and retrofit; low-carbon heating; energy markets and networks; and a just energy transition.
Find out more about the topics covered in our blog post, which includes photos, links to the presentations given on the day and further information on plans to make the event recording available.
4. Evidence for healthy soils policymaking
Episode 3 of our podcast features Dr Sarah Buckingham, our new CXC postdoctoral researcher working on the important topic of healthy soils in policymaking.
As well as explaining the importance of healthy soils in relation to climate change, Sarah discusses how her career in research developed and what it’s like for her, as a researcher, working directly with Scottish Government policy teams.
Catch up on previous podcast episodes and subscribe to 'Evidence for climate policy in Scotland' on Spotify or Apple Podcasts to be alerted to new episodes.
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5. Mapping land use support systems and access pathways
Land use transformation, and related reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, will be necessary to achieve Scotland’s climate and biodiversity targets.
This study aims to understand how and why land managers engage, or don't engage, with land use transformation support systems, to inform how policy could be best deployed to accelerate the process of change.
6. Enabling collaborative landscape management
Collaborative landscape management is when farmers and land managers enhance ecosystems across a landscape. It has potential to tackle biodiversity loss and climate change. This study investigated how to support this in Scotland.
It found that stakeholders need support for collaboration, long-term funding and training. They were keen to build on what exists already.
7. Monitoring outcomes of the third Scottish National Adaptation Plan
Scotland is already experiencing climate change impacts, including increasing water scarcity, flooding and extreme weather events. The Scottish Government is preparing for these challenges with the third Scottish National Adaptation Plan (SNAP3).
This report presents indicators for monitoring the four domestic outcomes of SNAP3. It establishes a baseline prior to the implementation of the Plan for monitoring and determining progress at the end of its five-year period.
8. What helped reduce emissions from our website
Find out how to make websites more environmentally friendly in our new blog post.?
CXC Communications Manager Inês Crespo explains the steps she took to improve the carbon rating of our ClimateXChange website from F to A+.
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ClimateXChange is Scotland's centre of expertise on climate change. We provide a research, advice and analysis service to policy teams and associated public agencies. We are funded by the Scottish Government.