MACC Hub Webinar Series

Background

The MACC Hub is running a fascinating webinar series that brings together a diverse and impressive line up of speakers from the realms of research, policy, and practice. Each session dives into important topics surrounding transformational adaptation, climate resilience, and the need to bridge knowledge gaps in adaptation across the four nations of the UK. These webinars align perfectly with the MACC Hub’s goal of creating a science-policy connection that drives real, localized responses to climate challenges. Whether it’s sharing valuable insights from MACC-funded projects or encouraging discussions across different sectors, this series serves as a vibrant platform for exchanging knowledge, learning, and collaborative thinking to aid the UK’s journey toward adaptation.

Upcoming webinars

#6 The role of policy and private capital in transformational adaptation

As climate risks intensify, adaptation at scale will require both strong public policy and significant private investment. But how can the public and private sectors work together to deliver adaptation that is truly transformational, inclusive and durable? 

Our next webinar on 22 January, 1-2pm, explores how policy frameworks and private capital can align to support long-term adaptation outcomes; and where the tensions, trade-offs and risks lie. We will examine the enabling conditions needed to mobilise private finance in ways that strengthen, rather than undermine, systemic adaptation efforts, and the role of policy in guiding and governing this process. 

Past webinars

#5 Financing Fairness: Unlocking Climate Adaptation for Vulnerable Communities

Climate adaptation is urgent and requires funding: but who receives it, and who is left out? And what are the sources and instruments of adaptation finance? This session explores whether current adaptation funding and finance truly prioritise equity, and how they might be reimagined to better support those most vulnerable to climate risks. As climate risks intensify, this session offers a space to explore how adaptation finance can be structured to maximise both equity and effectiveness, ensuring that resources reach those who need them most.

#4 Climate Ready Healthcare Systems – our biggest challenge?

On 14 October 2025, we hosted a webinar to explore one of the most critical climate‑adaptation challenges in the UK: building healthcare systems resilient to climate risks. The discussion brought together experts from across the NHS, policy, and sustainability sectors to address the growing threats of flooding, overheating, supply chain disruption, and disease, and to debate how services, infrastructure, and planning must change to protect health and wellbeing equitably.

#3 Visions for a well-adapted UK

This one‑hour online session (held 18 September 2025) brought together speakers from across the UK’s four nations to reflect on what a truly well‑adapted UK might look like. Rather than formal presentations, each panelist gave a short provocation to spark debate on power, equity, trade‑offs, and how to build a shared, measurable vision for resilience. A Q&A followed, opening space for participants to challenge assumptions and reimagine adaptation strategies. The session highlighted the need for cross-sector collaboration and innovative approaches to measuring adaptation success. It also underscored the importance of considering local perspectives while developing national-scale resilience policies.

#2 Improving the way we engage with vulnerability as a pathway to transformational adaptation

In the second session of the MACC Hub webinar series—Improving the Way We Engage with Vulnerability as a Pathway to Transformational Adaptation—a diverse panel of experts from academia, advocacy, and policy convene to critically examine how “vulnerability” is framed within climate research, policy, and practice. The webinar features four speakers, who together, explore who defines vulnerability, the consequences of these definitions, and how reframing the discourse is urgent for advancing climate justice.

#1 Contributing to the Well Adapted UK Report (WAUK) – Evidence Call from the CCC

This webinar, hosted in collaboration with the Climate Change Committee (CCC), brought together researchers and practitioners to engage with the UK’s climate adaptation agenda and contribute to the upcoming Well Adapted UK report, part of the Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA4-IA). Speakers Katy Peat (Defra) and Caitlin Douglas (CCC) outlined the current evidence call and the strategic direction for building national climate resilience. The session offered valuable insights into shaping adaptation policy and highlighted the MACC Hub’s role in fostering cross-sector collaboration.