The first heatwaves of 2023 in Belgium  and the UK have been officially declared.

Today a delegation of Silent Spring Consultants visited Cambridge to explore new collaboration opportunities with a wide range of potential partners who share our vision for a more sustainable and climate friendly future. 

We are delighted that 'The 2022 heatwaves: England’s response and future preparedness for heat risk' Policy Brief was published yesterday and attracted a lot of media attention. Starting last summer, during the heatwaves of 2022, SSC worked in collaboration with colleagues from the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change - London School of Economics and Political Science, the Place-Based Climate Action Network (PCAN) and the Red Cross.

Tomorrow, 26 May 2023, Dr Andrea Armstrong and Mr Wim Pulinx are delighted to join esteemed colleagues at the European Forum for Urban Forestry. This year the conference theme is Urban Forests as Nature Based Solutions (UF-NBS) and they will be presenting their paper on "Managing Military Urban Forests: Case Study of Kamp Beverlo, Belgium". 

Each year, the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies funds several projects led by VUB research groups and researchers. Each of the awarded projects engages with the broad field of urban studies and with concepts linked to inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on cities and ‘the urban’, comparative urbanism and engaged research connecting academia with other actors and networks. One of the winners of the 2023 edition is Silent Spring Consultants with the following project:

Today we celebrate one year of Silent Spring Consultants Ltd.

Extreme heat and drought is a global climate challenge of concern to Silent Spring Consultants who since the heatwave of 2022 have been working in collaboration with a range of stakeholders the United Kingdom and Europe.  The world’s cities are heating up at twice the global average rate due to rapid urbanization and the urban heat island effect. By 2100, many cities across the world could warm as much as 4 degrees Celsius (°C) if GHG emissions continue at high levels – this is more than double the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C.

Silent Spring Consultants offers research and consultancy services within our fields of expertise to local, regional and national governments and their agencies working in areas such as the environment, nature-based solutions, decarbonisation, transitions to Net Zero, climate change mitigation and adaptation, sustainable development, risk and resilience (e.g. to extreme heat and cold), biodiversity, urban planning, governance, housing, communities, rural affairs, renewable energy, agriculture, food security, international development, public health, forestry, trade and industry, education, children and youth, science and technology, digitalisation, transport and infrastructure. 

From loss and damage to 1.5C goal and World Bank reform, the takeaways from Sharm el-Sheikh