On 21 October 2015, the British Embassy in Paris hosted a day of discussions on French-British collaboration on resilience to extreme weather, with talks from UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Mark Walport, former vice-chair of IPCC WKI Dr. Jean Jouzel, as well as representatives from the Met Office and Meteo France, UK and French government departments, and the private sector.

1. Resilience to Severe Weather
Sir Mark Walport
Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government

2. Government’s Chief Scientific
Adviser
• Health, wellbeing, security &
resilience
• Knowledge translated to economic
advantage
• The right science for emergencies
• Underpinning policy with evidence
• Advocacy and leadership for
science
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3. National Risk Register

4. Climate Change consequences
for likelihood and impact

5. Focus on prevention
and mitigation
5 Speech Title
Prevent Mitigate
RecoverRespond
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6. What can science contribute?
Innovation: Managing Risk, Not Avoiding It, 27th March 2015

7. From Data to
Knowledge
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8. Linking data-sets

9. Importance of international
collaboration:
e.g modelling ocean currents

10. So what can we do?
Better forecasting

11. So what can we do?
Better data visualisation

12. So what can we do?
Better long-term planning

13. So what can we do?
Better communication

14. Conclusion
• Focus more on preventing and
mitigating risks
• Investigate the potential of
cascading risks and impacts
• Use this knowledge to develop
the tools necessary to deal with
risks
• Work together to share
information and expertise
• Communicating to the public
effectively is vital

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