The areas we are focusing specifically on are:

• What can heritage research contribute towards characterising and qualifying climate-related risks?
• How can heritage research help build resilience to climate variability and change without exacerbating existing inequalities?
• What can heritage research offer climate services to help individuals and communities make climate-smart decisions?

Speakers include:

Albino Jopela, Head of Programmes, African World Heritage Fund

Caitlin de Silvey, Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Exeter

Carl Carrington, Head of Planning and Conservation, Blackpool Council

Ewan Hislop, Head of Technical Research, Historic Environment Scotland

Hannah Fluck, Head of Environmental Research, Historic England

Kate Lonsdale, AHRC UK Climate Resilience Programme Champion, Leeds University

Mariella de Soissons, Policy Advisor, Climate Change and Adaptation, Defra

Navin Piplani, Principal Director, INTACH Heritage Academy, New Delhi

Sandra Henry, Lead Research Archaeologist, CHERISH (Discovery Programme)

Sanjay Johal, Community Flood Resilience Project Officer, National Flood Forum

Victoria Bankes Price, Planning Advisor, Forestry Commission

Yann Grandgirard, Project Manager, Edinburgh World Heritage