RYA-affiliated offshore club and training centre for Reading and the surrounding area
Talk: Climate Change and Sailing – A voyage through time
Mon, 03 Feb
|Upper Thames Motor Yacht Clubhouse
Tim Reeder has fifty years’ experience in the environmental field and has been involved in climate change issues for most of that time. He has contributed to many national and international reports. He is an advisor to the London Climate Ready partnership, which he helped to set up.
Time & Location
03 Feb 2025, 19:30
Upper Thames Motor Yacht Clubhouse, Club Ho/Mill Island, Reading RG4 6TW, UK
About the event
Tim was also the Project Scientist for the Environment Agency’s Thames Estuary 2100 project, which looked at the future of the Thames Barrier and flood risk management in the Thames Estuary and pioneered the concept of Adaptation Pathways. He chaired the panel which has produced a new British standard 8631 on the issue.
He continues to contribute to climate change adaptation practice and policy, working in the UK and abroad.
Tim has been an active sailor for many years and is a past Commodore of the Parker and Seal Sailing Association.