EU Structural and Investment Funds 2014-20

Climate Change and Environmental Protection

SWOT Workshop

Martin Budd, Hull City Council

Nadine Senior, Hull & East Yorkshire Local Nature Partnership

EU Structural and Investment Funds 2014-20

Thematic Objective 5Climate Change

Strategic Context

• Climate Change Act

• National Adaptation Programme

• Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy

• National Heat Wave Plan

Key Principles

• Strengthening economic development through wider adaptation and Resilience

• Enabling economic development through investment in flood and coastal risk management

Proposed Duel Approacho Set out how adaptive actions will be promoted in

strategies through, Ensure that all future economic growth is resilient

to climate change and its impacts

o Include targeted and proportionate SIF investment in measures to enable growth by managing flood and coastal risks through, Aligning and matching with domestic funding and

policies to ensure that growth is sustainable

Integrate Adaptation

• Support opportunities to evolve adaptation goods, services and markets

• Help businesses and organisations make well-informed decisions to manage their risk

• Inform and support assessment of climate change risk impacts and adaptive measures into policy and investment decision-making

Increasing Flood and Coastal Risk

• Ensure that growth, and development to accommodate it, is robust to increasing risks and does not transfer or defer risks to others

• That achievement of sustainable growth is not constrained by climate risks

• Investment that enables growth through managing increasing flood and coastal risk complements domestic policy and funding mechanisms

EU Structural and Investment Funds 2014-20

Thematic Objective 6Environmental Protection and

Resource Efficiency

Strategic Context

Preliminary LEP guidance: priorities

1. Investment in resource efficiency measures that improve business performance.

2. Promoting innovative technologies that address environmental protection and resource efficiency for businesses and communities.

3. Actions to promote ecosystem services that support growth and jobs.

4. Investment in green infrastructure to support sustainable economic development.

1. Investment in resource efficiency measures that improve business performance.

Research commissioned by Defra and published in March 2011 indicated that £23bn per annum could be saved through no/low cost actions to reduce waste and by using energy and resources more efficiently.

disposal

Business operations products

servicesresources

reduce, reuse, recycle

2. Promoting innovative technologies that address environmental protection and resource efficiency for

businesses and communities.

Eco Innovation - new products and services with lower impacts on the environment and improved resource efficiency.

Improves business competitiveness and addresses environmental protection issues.

Knowledge transfer

Business operations

reduce, reuse, recycleresourcesproducts

servicesEco-innovation

Novel products

disposal

3. Actions to promote ecosystem services that support growth and jobs.

Ecosystem services provide the raw materials for industry and provides the processes that purify air and water and breakdown wastes.

Knowledge transfer

Business operations

reduce, reuse, recycleresourcesproducts

servicesEco-innovation

Novel products

disposal

Ecosystem ServicesNovel products

4. Investment in green infrastructure to support sustainable economic development.

Green infrastructure refers to the living network of green spaces, water and other environmental features in urban, rural and maritime areas.

Attracts investment and employment –e.g. new recreational routes can bring significant benefits to a local economy.

Knowledge transfer

Business operations

reduce, reuse, recycleresourcesproducts

servicesEco-innovation

Novel products

disposal

Ecosystem ServicesNovel products

SWOT WORKSHOP• Undertake a SWOT on each theme, thinking in particular of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the Humber area• 2 tables will each discuss a theme;

– Climate change adaptation– Flood risk and coastal erosion– Environmental protection

• 1st session will last an hour• Comfort break (15 min). Move onto a different table for 2nd session lasting 25 minutes• 3rd session discussion of links with other thematic objectives• Conclusions, next steps etc.• There is a facilitator on each table to help you