C: Tackling Climate Change: local planning for a global crisis
Alun Jones, Managing Director of the Geoinformation Group

The Climate Change Bill is requiring a reduction in CO2 emissions of between 26 and 32 percent by 2020 and 60 percent by 2050. With ambitious targets like these public bodies need more intelligent means of measuring, monitoring and managing improvements in their efforts to tackle global warming. Whilst there exists a wide set of tools to measure carbon foot prints, CO2 emissions etc key information is missing about the current geographic make up of the land, the urban fabric, and the energy emissions of the local environment. Through the effective use of geographic information signs of success in the fight against the effects of global warming can be measured, for example reduction in the percentage of buildings showing high heat loss, reduction in fuel poverty, reduction in homes flooded or high value land laid to waste, or an increase in open space. This workshop will examine the role for geographic information in tackling climate change at a local level. This will be through a series of interactive sessions and a big quiz!