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iMechE – 1st International Conference and Workshop on Climate Adaptation and Resilience
Wednesday 6th September
Fathom’s own Professor Paul Bates and Peter Slater will join iMechE at their first international conference on Climate Adaptation and Resilience.
The three-day event is hosted by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and features insights from world-renowned experts on adapting to climate change. Throughout the event, the conference will explore pressing research and challenges that are being faced by engineers across a range of physical risks, including heat impacts and drought; fluvial and pluvial flooding; and rising sea levels and coastal flooding.
As part of this, Professor Paul Bates will deliver a presentation on flood risk and climate change in the UK. Referencing “A climate-conditioned catastrophe model for the UK” – a Fathom-published paper released earlier this year – Paul will discuss its key findings:
— Great Britain will only be able to avoid a major increase in climate change-related flood risk if all countries’ COP26 and net-zero emission reduction pledges are met in full.
— The nation is not well-adapted to its existing flood risks, let alone further increases that climate change will bring.
— We expect the annual cost of flooding in the UK over the next century to increase by between 13% and 23% above recent historic levels if targets are not met.
A climate conditioned catastrophe risk model for UK flooding
New research from Bates et al. describes the creation of a transparent flood model for the UK that simulates pluvial, fluvial and coastal flood risks for 10 different return periods.
