Working Groups

Chair: Lesley Van Dijk, South East England Regional Assembly

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.

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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: 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.

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Chair: Dr. Kevin Turpin, TRL Ltd.

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.

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Chair: Ian Hepburn, Wildlife Trusts in the South East

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.

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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.

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