Working Groups

Chair: Currently vacant

The Climate South East Communications group provides support to all of the partnership’s activities and projects by promoting clear and positive messages about climate change solutions, and by publicising Climate South East activities within and beyond the partnership, where appropriate.

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Chair: Graham Tubb, SEEDA

The Climate South East Business & Economy group aims to engage businesses throughout the South East in addressing the causes and effects of climate change.

The group is currently working on a Defra-funded project aimed at providing simple messages and guidance about climate change adaptation, tailored to small businesses in the food and drink area of the hospitality sector.

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Chair: Sean Rendall, Woking Borough Council

The Climate South East Planning group works to ensure that measures to improve resilience to climate change impacts and to prevent further ecological degradation are implemented in planning policy at local, regional, national, and European levels.

Most recently, the group has been contributing to the Regional Assembly’s Regional Vulnerability Assessment scoping work and its Climate Change Guide for LDF Planners.

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Chair: Jacinta Thorley, South East Rural Community Councils

The Climate South East Communities group works to collect and promote examples of existing, practical, community-led climate change solutions that can be replicated throughout the region and beyond.

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Chair: Justin Goodwin, Strategic Environmental Systems

The Climate South East Emissions Monitoring group works to provide technical support and advice to partners in their efforts to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

At the last meeting on August 13, the group reviewed the results so far of the Emissions Monitoring survey of the tools available to help local authorities monitor greenhouse gas emissions under NIs 185 and 186. Those results, along with the partners’ views about issues arising from reporting on the indicators, will inform a joint CSE response to the government’s consultation on the indicators. We urge as many partners as possible to join in this response by completing the survey. We want to use your responses to communicate to Government your views on emissions monitoring in the SE and to contribute constructively to the future design of better and more efficient systems for monitoring and reporting. Because you can respond anonymously, you can answer frankly and CSE can represent your views without naming names.

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Chair: Currently vacant

The Climate South East Biodiversity group aims to share and to support partners in implementing solutions to make species and habitats as resilient as possible to climate change impacts, and ecosystems robust and functional (providing life-support services) in the face of climate change impacts.

The Biodiversity group is currently scoping some work to examine how well existing policies and programmes aimed at protecting biodiversity incorporate future climate change scenarios. A project spec will be circulated in early January.

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Chair: Paul Jeffries, Tourism South East.

The Climate South East Tourism group brings together Climate South East members with a specific interest in the tourism sector and a commitment to work towards a more sustainable and climate-resilient tourism sector.

Please also see our interactive adaptation tool for tourism businesses, developed in cooperation with the South West Climate Change Impacts Partnership.

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