Dumfries & Galloway Climate Change Risk Assessment
Call for Local Evidence
What is the research about?
The Dumfries and Galloway climate change risk assessment will be used to inform future adaptation action to help the region become more resilient to climate change impacts such as sea level rise, flooding and changing temperatures.
It is essential that future adaptation planning is informed by the best evidence base possible, and this necessitates the use of data held by a range of local and regional bodies, including Local Authorities, health trusts, regeneration and economic partnerships. Your organisations know your local area better than anyone and hold a lot of data regarding the local economy, society, environment, infrastructure and geography.
CAG Consultants are supporting Dumfries and Galloway to prepare this climate risk assessment. As part of our research, will be accessing publicly available evidence (such as the PBRD and FRM plans for the region), but not all relevant information is in the public domain.
Contribute to Our Climate Knowledge Base
We invite local and regional organisations to share their data and insights to enhance our climate change risk assessment. This evidence will be used to identify risks and opportunities that the region may experience arising from climate change and what systems and plans are in place to respond to these risks and opportunities.
Please submit your evidence via email to ag@cagconsult.co.uk or click the link below
Examples of potential evidence (any organisation)
Climate risk and opportunity assessments (at any scale)
Research on risks
Resilience and adaptation plans
Information about development / investment plans which could affect vulnerability and exposure
Maintenance logs for property of damage due to storms/weather
Relevant extracts from corporate risk registers
Data about impacts, costs and disruption already experienced
Climate Adaptation Strategy / Action Plan
Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP)
Examples of potential evidence (local authority)
Local Climate Impacts Profile (LCLIP)
Flooding incident reports/logs - council property and wider (or similar for other weather events i.e. wind storms, snow)
Claims under schemes like Bellwin for previous extreme weather events
Adverse Weather Plan
Local Highway Infrastructure Asset Management Policy
Transport strategies
Information on local resilience / emergency networks
Registers of vacant and derelict land
List of any COMAH sites
Carbon management plan
Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES)
Health and wellbeing strategy
Forestry and / or Woodland strategy
Greenspace strategy
Local Biodiversity Action Plan (LBAP)
Shoreline Management Plan or Coastal Change Adaptation Plan
How to Submit Your Evidence
To contribute evidence to our climate change risk assessment, please send your documents via email to ag@cagconsult.co.uk. Alternatively, you can upload files directly to our shared folder. Please email Ailsa who will share a link to this folder. We encourage you to share documents as they become available to facilitate timely analysis.
Please ensure that all submissions are clearly labeled with the type of evidence and the organisation providing it. This will help us efficiently categorise and use the information. For any questions regarding the submission process, feel free to contact us.
Confidentiality Protocol
Handling Sensitive Information
We understand the importance of confidentiality and are committed to handling sensitive documents with care. If your submission contains confidential information, please clearly mark it as such in the document title or description.
Our research team will ensure that all confidential materials are stored securely and accessed only by authorized personnel. If a document is not yet in the public domain, please indicate this, and we will treat it with the utmost discretion.