World Heritage & Climate Action webinar – # 3

Number 3 in a series of 4 webinar talks, showcasing some of the UK’s World Heritage Sites and their work in tackling the impacts of climate change.

Date – Tuesday 11th March 2025

World Heritage Site – Old and New Towns of Edinburgh

Speakers – Jenny Bruce, Old & New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage Site Coordinator and Yann Grandigard from Edinburgh World Heritage

Jenny is Coordinator for the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage Site. She splits her time between the City of Edinburgh Council and Historic Environment Scotland and has worked in heritage for two decades. She has recently drafted the fourth Management Plan for the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage Site on behalf of its management partners, and co-authored the Climate Vulnerability Index Assessment for the Site, published in 2023, which details the first application of this methodology in an urban context. 

Yann is Head of Climate Change at Edinburgh World Heritage (EWH), leading the organisation’s response to the climate emergency. Trained as a civil engineer in France, Yann has more than 15 years of experience in project management in the construction sector, from the client’s perspective.

Yann joined Edinburgh World Heritage in 2017 to manage the Canongate Housing Energy Efficiency and Conservation project. Since 2020, he has been developing and managing EWH’s climate emergency programme. This includes the delivery of innovative pilot projects, guidance, training and advocacy focusing on sensitive energy retrofit interventions and climate change adaptation in the context of the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage Site.

Webinars run 7 to 8pm, and are held on Zoom. Zoom details usually sent out latest the day before the webinar.

Single webinar tickets are £5 each. A series ticket for all 4 webinars is £15. Tickets are available up to 4pm the day before.

Each webinar is recorded and uploaded to WHUK’s private YouTube channel. All ticket holders will be sent a link to the video, to revisit or catch up if the live talk was missed.

More details on this webinar to follow. Webinars been and still to come include:

• Tuesday 21st January – Roxane Andersen from The Flow Country WHS (YouTube recording)
• Tuesday 18th February – Sarah France and Josie Campbell from Studley Royal & Fountains Abbey WHS (YouTube recording)
• Tuesday 15th April – Mairi Lock, WHS Coordinator at the English Lake District WHS

Images: Connor Mollison (top); Historic Environment Scotland (small); J. Bruce