PUBLIC SECTOR WORKSHOP

Nottinghamshire County Hall

24 JULY 2007

AGENDA

10.00-10.30am

Registration and coffee

Session one: setting the scene

10.30-10.45am

Welcome and opening remarks

Chair: Sharon Palmer, Environment Agency, Chair of East Midlands Climate Change

Steering Group

10.45-11.05am

Presentation: Impacts of climate change on East Midlands: challenges and opportunities (1.1MB PDF)

Sharon Palmer, Environment Agency, Chair of East Midlands Climate Change Steering Group

Session two: adaptation

11.05-11.25 am

Presentation: Adaptation and the natural environment: a vision of a future East Midlands (1.2MB PDF)

Alison Hepworth, East Midlands Regional Assembly

11.25-12.00pm

Adaptation break-out sessions

12.00-12.15pm

Report to plenary from break-out groups

Session three: mitigation

12.15-12.35pm

Presentation: All change: the transport challenge (30KB PDF)

Bettina Lange, Campaign to Protect Rural England, East Midlands Environment Link

12.35-1.10 pm

Mitigation break-out sessions

1.10-1.25pm

Report to plenary from break-out groups

1.25-2.00pm

Lunch

Session four: driving action

2.00-2.20pm

Presentation: Wellingborough, Climate Change 10 years of Action (5MB PDF)

Denise Marsdon, Energy Efficiency Officer and lead on Climate Change for

Wellingborough Council, Chair of the East Midlands Home Energy Officers' Network

2.20 –2.55pm

Driving action break-out sessions

2.55-3.10pm

Report to plenary from break-out groups

3.10 – 3.20pm

Group exercise: Priority objectives for action in the East Midlands

3.20-3.30pm

Closing remarks

3.30-4.00pm

Coffee and networking