NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS

Actions Currently Budgeted

Operations

N1 Working Group Established In the next 5 years EWCC, Public Realm Working group established

N2 Establish a crossdepartmental Trees and SuDS Working Group to promote and pilot watersensitive urban design (WSUD) incorporating urban tree planting

N3 Workshop to develop Dublin Risk Assessment for nature and Climate Change

In the next 5 years

EWCC Working group established, # of urban tree pits used as attenuation systems

In the next 5 years EWCC, Climate Change Workshop conducted, assessment developed

Update: SDCC has initiated contact with neighbouring LAs to establish a Regional Working Group to identify new actions and priorities. Working group will include members from 4 DLAs. Terms of reference for the group to be agreed.

Update: A SuDS Working Group was established in South Dublin County Council to progress the development of guideline for SuDS. Guidelines for SuDS include advice on using tree pits for water attenuation. SDCC are currently reviewing the Capital Works Programme to establish where SuDS can be implemented.

Update: In collaboration with the Climate Action Regional Offices (CARO), Climate Ireland has developed a semi-quantitative climate risk assessment methodology for use by local authorities. The main objective of the work was to develop a robust, replicable and transparent set of guidelines that can be used to assess the risks of climate impacts across different local authority assets and functions. The impacts investigated are some of those that local authorities have already been facing. The semi-quantitative climate risk assessment (SQCRA) methodology developed is aligned with the IPCC climate risk framework. The SQCRA methodology has six stages that must be implemented to produce the final risk assessment. The stages are: Stage 1 - Risk Screening Stage 2 - Impact Chain Development

Stage 3 - Indicator Identification and Ranking

Stage 4 - Combining Risk Components

Stage 5 - Risk Outputs Stage 6 - Interpreting and Evaluating the Findings. In addition to developing guidelines for implementing a semi-quantitative climate risk assessment, three illustrative case studies were prepared to illustrate its practical implementation. The case studies investigated were (1) risk of road degradation during heatwave events, (2) risk of flooding to social housing, and (3) risk of fluvial flooding to heritage assets. Workshops were held on 11th November 2021 followed by a webinar on 10th June, 2022

Ongoing

Ongoing