Public sector

UK Climate Impacts Programme

Client: UK Climate Impacts Programme, Oxford University

Task: Project management and training services: extreme weather resilience project

Timeframe: 20010/2011

Ems2 developed and managed a project to train UK-based accountancy firms to provide their clients with advice on resilience to extreme weather events.

Services Provided

• Project Management including

• • Producing and reviewing project plan
  • Chairing project review teleconferences
  • Contacting accountancy firms and securing sufficient trial participants
  • Supporting accountants through the trial and liaising with the resilience tool's technical contact
  • Producing report of trial findings
• Training and knowledge transfer activities including
  • Presenting trial results at the Said Business School
  • Presenting on innovation hotspots at the Said Business School
  • Collating and reporting on feedback at each stage
  • Producing materials for:
    • Training workshop
    • Launch event
    • Feedback

Special Requirements

• Transforming accountants into climate-savvy advisors
• Supporting face-to-face sessions hampered by snow



Watch a video of one of the accountants who took part in the trial

Oxfordshire County Council

Client: Public event funded by Oxfordshire County Council

Task: Training services: flood planning workshop at Oxford Brookes University

Timeframe: 2008

Services Provided

• Climate change adaptation advice and collaborative workshop
• Liaison with Oxfordshire emergency planning officer
• Collaboration with other service providers across the county
• Creation of business and householder real-life flooding case studies