Shaping Scotland’s climate adaptation

A Glasgow Caledonian climate justice academic has been asked to help shape the Scottish Government’s Climate Adaptation Framework.

Professor Tahseen Jafry, director of the University’s Mary Robinson Centre for Climate Justice, will join the Scottish Science Advisory Council (SSAC), Scotland’s highest-level science advisory body, providing independent advice and recommendations on science strategy, policy and priorities to the Scottish Government. It is a broadly-based group, including both practitioners and users of scientific innovation.

Professor Jafry said: “I’m honoured to be involved in shaping Scotland’s adaptation policies. My role will be to help inform research-led decisions.

“Scotland is already experiencing the effects of climate change, such as warmer summers and wetter winters.

“Climate projections for the next century indicate that these trends will not only continue, but intensify.

“Adapting and building resilience to the impacts of climate change will be necessary, alongside our actions to reduce emissions. Many of these impacts are now locked in as a result of the historic and ongoing emissions at the global scale.

“Action on adaptation means preparing for the impacts of climate change which cannot be avoided. This can mean managing the impacts by improving natural flood defences, ensuring our transport networks are resilient to climate change and preparing our infrastructure and economy for increased temperatures and more extreme weather events.”