APPROACH

Although we refer to climate models, we specialise in analysing a range of paleo-environmental data from international data banks to reconstruct past local environmental conditions.  We associate this information with various atmospheric systems, celestial mechanics and solar data, and analyse it using time series methods to reconstruct past environmental conditions and climate. Using this approach, we develop more robust future climate-environmental scenarios based on past evidence specific to the region of a given project than climate models alone can provide.  

Consult 5 has specialists in climate change analysis and the identification of regional climate induced hazards such as droughts, flooding, extreme storms and wildfires.  Each specialist has over 20 years of climatology and environmental experience in academics, government, industry and working with the UN IPCC and IEA GHG R&D programme.  Consult 5 provides governments and project developers with information on long-term climate variability and on the frequency, magnitude and range of climate induced hazards and associated environmental effects.  

The Consult 5 interest is in providing government, developers and engineers with useful information that will assist with planning and adaption for future climate change where it is necessary.  Our approach is pragmatic and strives to provide real working input information allowing engineers to work with realistic predictions and confidence bands. This allows  government and project decisions to be made with confidence and capital resources to be used effectively.

COUNTRY AND REGION EXPERIENCE

• Europe - Finland, Norway, Netherlands, United Kingdom
• Canada
• USA – Alaska, Colorado Plateau, Northern and Southern Plains
• Greenland
• Mongolia
• West Africa - Sahel Region
• South Africa.

SERVICES

• Paleo-environmental and climate reconstruction for future climate change effect determination.
• Long term climate scenario development.
• Climate scenario and adaptation strategy development.
• Climate change risk assessment and management planning.
• Flood management and seasonal government planning.
• Real time flood hazard tools for government and emergency services.
  
• Specialist climate change reports for Environmental Impact Assessments.
• Carbon Capture and Storage risk assessment and policy development.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS

• Agricultural Sustainability in the Soudo-Sahel: Climate Change and the Application of Traditional Knowledge to Enhance Agricultural Productivity, by: Diane L. Douglas, Jeffrey A. Homburg, and Mark Vendrig.

• 10 000 Year Climate Scenario development for a new uranium mine in Nunavut.

• Climate change report for a long term ground freezing project in Yellowknife, Canada.

• Climate change report for a mine closure plan in Whitehorse, Canada.

INVITED LECTURES

Lectures Presented on Climate Change and Risk Preparedness:

• Cultural Heritage Administration (Seoul, Korea, 2012).

• United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (Geneva, Switzerland, 2011).

• World Bank Lecture Series (Washington, D.C., 2010).

• Ename Center /UNESCO (Belgium, 2009).

• ICOMOS General Assembly (New Orleans, 2009).

CLIMATOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Lectures and Presentations:

• Cultural Heritage Administrations, Korean Society for Heritage Policy (scheduled for, 9 February 2012).  Lessons and Challenges of Heritage Safety Experiences: Integrating climate change analyses and hazard risk reduction planning into national, regional and local plans.

• Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, Switzerland, May 8 to 13, 2011.

• Cultural Heritage Administrations, Korean Society for Heritage Policy (scheduled for, 9 February 2012).  Lessons and Challenges of Heritage Safety Experiences: integrating climate change analyses and hazard risk reduction planning into national, regional and local plans.

• Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, Switzerland, May 8 to 13, 2011.

• Mitigating Climate Change Impacts on Critical Assets and World Heritage Sites.

• World Bank Lecture Series, Washington D.C., February 2010. Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Climate Change.

• UNESCO World Heritage Center 5th International Ename Colloquim: Climates of Heritage Conservation, in Ghent, Belgium March 20, 2009.  Climate Change and Social Adaptation: how the past can inform the future. 

• 12th US/ICOMOS International Symposium, New Orleans, USA, March 2009. Floods, Fires, and Earthquakes: Hazard Mitigation Planning to Minimize the Adverse Effects of Natural Disasters on Heritage Resources.

• XVII INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia. August 2007. Future Climate Change: Implications for Radioactive Waste.  

• American Anthropological Association, Critical Intersections/Dangerous Issues, San Jose, California. November 2006.  Sustainable Development and Cultural Identity.

CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION

• The Science of Climate Change.

• The Green Movement in Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Climate Change and Adaptation in Sweden.

• Climate, Biodiversity, and Human Adaptation.

• Climate Change - An Inconvenient Truth -- Brainwashing our Youth? Or Truth?