City Investment and Partnership Opportunities: Glasgow, UK

Climate Ready Clyde

Climate Ready Clyde is an innovative adaptation partnership for the Glasgow cityregion to address the local impacts of global climate change. It brings together eight local authorities in the Glasgow area, together with regional and national agencies to assess and act on the challenges and opportunities of climate change adaptation — recognising that things like the watercourse, electrical grid and public transport infrastructure cross over local government boundaries and therefore require a broad regional approach in relation to the impacts of a changing climate. It has attracted initial funding of £100K from the Scottish Government to establish the partnership and its business case is now being implemented through partner contributions to fund a core team.

Investment/Partnership Opportunity: Climate Ready Clyde is one of the key delivery mechanisms for the Glasgow resilience strategy. Additional funding to support this work with an additional post or posts in the core team would add significant value to its work and allow for greater engagement with local partners’ activities to ensure that they are climate resilient. This could potentially include a stronger focus on incorporating climate resilience in the £1.13 billion City Deal for the Glasgow city-region.

North Glasgow Inclusive Economic Growth Pilot

There is currently a high level of public and private sector investment in the north of Glasgow, addressing long-term resilience challenges around post-industrial regeneration and community renewal. This geographical area and this set of challenges is a key element of Glasgow’s resilience strategy. It includes one of the most significant inner city urban regeneration projects in the UK and Europe in the Sighthill area of north Glasgow. Partners are keen to put a focus on inclusive economic growth as a key outcome of this work, acknowledging that this raises challenges — but also great opportunities — in bringing together research, policy and practice. This has a very high level of political support and is a key element of the new City Government’s approach in Glasgow to seeking more inclusive forms of growth in order to build a more resilient local economic model.

Investment/Partnership Opportunity: This is an area of work which lends itself well to trans-national learning through practical research in an existing context of high levels of investment in regeneration. There is therefore a good opportunity to add further support to the work of the University of Glasgow in its primary research role in north Glasgow and to develop a broader EU discussion on the challenges of inclusive economic growth.

Contact:
Duncan Booker, Chief Resilience Officer | Duncan.Booker@glasgow.gov.uk