Climate Ready South East Scotland (CRSES) published the first climate risk and opportunity assessment for the Edinburgh and South East Scotland city region in April 2025. By working together with hundreds of organisations and communities in phase 1 of the project, they now have a better understanding of how climate change will affect our region, and where we need to prioritise adaptation action together to minimise risks and maximise opportunities.

Phase 2 of CRSES is now underway and activities planned for this year will take us from risk assessment results to delivering collaborative climate resilience action on the ground

This informal webinar is a chance to learn more about the key findings from the climate risk and opportunity assessment, the collaboration's priorities for 2025-26 and how you can get involved in robust, collaborative climate resilience action within our region.

Join Verture and their Local Authority partners for this informative and hands-on session, and help Edinburgh and South East Scotland become more resilient to the impacts of climate change.

Please note that this session is being recorded.

How you can help

Please join them, and share this invitation with your contacts.

The context

Edinburgh and South East Scotland's climate is already changing, and will continue to do so for decades after we reach net zero GHG emisisons. This means more extreme weather; hotter, drier, summers; wetter winters; more unpredictable seasons and rainfall, super-charged storms and rising sea levels.

These changes will affect our communities, and the places we care about – where we live, work and play. They will also affect the natural world, and the systems that we rely on, from transport, to food supply. We need to become more resilient to the impacts of climate change to ensure that our region can prosper, and that all our communities and places can flourish. To find out about how climate change impacts are already affecting communities and places in Edinburgh and South East Scotland visit our project Story Map to hear from those being impacted today.

Funders

The project is being delivered as part of the Regional Prosperity Framework, with support from Capital City Partnership. The project is funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Scottish Government.