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Climate Change and the Thames Estuary
September 17, 2014
Adam Guy, Programme Manager at Thames Estuary Partnership, explains how climate change resilience sits at the heart of all of the Thames Estuary Partnership’s activities. … Read more
Flood Risk in the City
August 15, 2014
Simon Mills, Head of Sustainable Development at the City of London, is telling us how the City has adapted to flood risk over the years and how it is preparing for upcoming challenges. … Read more
Cool solutions for overheated homes
July 17, 2014
On Wednesday 16th July the Zero Carbon Hub hosted a workshop looking at tackling overheating in homes … Read more
Looking beyond the bricks and mortar
July 1, 2014
The London Climate Change Partnership’s (LCCP) report Your social housing in a changing climate (2013) effectively makes the case for the implementation of adaptation measures in the housing sector in order to ensure that our homes and the often vulnerable people that reside in them are more resilient to the impacts of climate change. … Read more
Infrastructure failure : how would Anytown adapt?
June 25, 2014
Last week LCCP partner London Resilience hosted three workshops as part of the Anytown project. … Read more
Better data for better resilience
June 13, 2014
This week the ARCC conference took place at Birmingham. The ARCC network is fostering knowledge exchange in the field of adaptation and resilience in buildings, urban environments, transport networks, water resources and energy systems. … Read more
A Crowd Power Plant to foster renewable technologies
June 5, 2014
The Mayor of London’s Low Carbon Entrepreneur 2014’s winner James Winfield, Co-Founder of Crowd Power Plant, shares his experience of contributing to reduce London’s Co2 emissions … Read more
The storm surge of 2013 – 6th December
December 13, 2013
Tim Reeder writes about the storm surge of 6 December – the highest surge levels since the Thames Barrier was built. Tim explores the various forms of flood risk that London faces and outlines the work that the Environment Agency and other LCCP Members are carrying out. … Read more
London given top marks for preparedness in new study
August 14, 2013
Academics at Newcastle University have studied cities’ response to the climate challenge and their report states that that London leads the way. … Read more
Understanding London’s Heat Island
July 25, 2013
As London’s first prolonged heatwave in seven years – including a temperature of 33.5C at Heathrow and the Met Office issuing a level 3 heatwave alert – was brought to a dramatic close with a crash of thunder, it seems an opportune moment to take stock of the recent events. … Read more