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Verture
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Verture is a registered charity delivering knowledge-based solutions to resilience and sustainability issues in Scotland. We create and use breakthrough ideas and collaborative approaches across sectors, to make Scotland a more resilient place to live, work and play.
Through innovative partnership approaches we share good practice, synthesise and translate evidence, commission new studies and target communications, guidance and training.
Verture’s vision:
- To be an innovative and intelligent company, that anticipates, responds to and shapes the collective needs of our partners across a number of sectors
- To deliver knowledge-based solutions that relate to resilience and sustainability issues.
Read more about our work.
Jonathan Casey
Published an Article
Place Standard Tool with a Climate Lens
Want to understand how climate change might play out in a local area and how to support them to design their future place with climate in mind?
- March 18, 2025
- 1 min read
Multiple Authors
Five insights from the launch of a new initiative to help the UK adapt to climate change
In February 2025, the Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) Hub launched. It is a landmark initiative to devise strategies to help the UK make changes needed to better adapt to the impacts of climate change. The launch event itself sparked discussion about key issues shaping the UK adaptation agenda, and solicited ideas about the priorities that should drive the work ahead. Here, partners in the Hub program offer five takeaways.
- February 19, 2025
- 2 min read
Multiple Authors
Programme Launch: Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC)
The launch of the “MACC Hub” outlined key adaptation issues for the UK and put forward ways to engage with the project and its research agenda.
- February 11, 2025
- 8 min read
Helen Adams
Published an Event
MACC Hub Virtual Launch
Event: 04/02/2025 - 10:00 (UTC +01:00) - 12:00 (UTC +01:00)
The Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) program is a new, landmark initiative aimed at addressing the urgent need for transformative climate adaptation across the UK.
- Event: 04/02/2025 - 10:00 (UTC +01:00) - 12:00 (UTC +01:00)
- 2 min read
Jonathan Casey
Published a Case-study
Adaptation Finance Case Study: Craigleith Retail Park, Edinburgh
This case study explores the financing options support the retrofit of blue-green infrastructure in an urban setting in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- January 17, 2025
- 5 min read
Shruthi Krishnamoorthy
Published an Event
Scotland’s Flood Resilience Conference 2025
Date and Time Tue, 28 Jan 2025 09:30 - Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:30 GMT About Scotland’s climate has already...
- Event: 28/01/2025 - 00:00 (UTC +01:00) - 29/01/2025 - 00:00 (UTC +01:00)
- 2 min read
Morgan Roberts
Published a Case-study
Developing adaptation capability of the NHS in England – a pilot project
A project to develop adaptation capability within the NHS was carried out in 2024 by two independent organisations in the UK and three NHS organisations in the north of England. This article provides an overview of the project as a whole and what it hopes to achieve.
- September 12, 2024
- 7 min read
Morgan Roberts
Published a Case-study
Including Adaptation in your Green Plan – adaptation plan template and guidance for the NHS
This article provides an introduction to writing a climate change adaptation plan and reporting on adaptation in the NHS as context for two documents that can be found in the resource section: a downloadable Adaptation Plan Template, and a guide for including adaptation in your Green Plan and other regulatory guidance related to adaptation in the NHS.
- September 12, 2024
- 3 min read
Morgan Roberts
Published an Article
A climate adaptation framework for NHS organisations in England
This Climate Adaptation Framework supports the UK's National Health Service (NHS) organisations to adapt to climate change.
- August 21, 2024
- 4 min read
Multiple Authors
TALX: Climate Adaptation Partnership Network
Learn more about the Transboundary Adaptation Learning Exchange (TALX) project and The Climate Adaptation Partnership Framework which supports place-based adaptation across the Ireland and the UK. It provides practical actions to set up and further develop climate adaptation partnerships and includes inspiring case studies and links to a wide variety of tools and resources.
- March 23, 2023
- 5 min read
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