Previous projects
Resilient Businesses: Victoria BID
Resilient Business looks at how business communities and individual businesses can use adaptation measures to improve their resilience to extreme weather and climate change, as well as identify opportunities for growth. … Read more
Commercial Property Resilience
With more adverse weather events affecting London, we need to ensure the city’s infrastructure, buildings and services are resilient enough in order to manage extreme situations that may be beyond our current capacity to cope. … Read more
Understanding the Ripple Effect – Anytown
Anytown, a project led by London Resilience, is bringing together over 100 experts from over 50 London organisations to discuss the potential implications of disruption to electricity and water supply. … Read more
Adaptation Economy
Lead Partner: Greater London Authority
The Greater London Authority and London Climate Change Partnership have recently commissioned a study of London’s Adaptation Economy. The analysis will estimate the value of economic activities that can be defined as increasing London’s resilience to the impacts of extreme weather events and climate change. … Read more
Retrofitting London
Lead Partners: Sustainable Homes, Greater London Authority, Thames Water & Environment Agency
The amount and scale of retrofit projects being carried out in the capital presents an opportunity to ensure London’s buildings and residents are resilient to extreme weather and climate change. Understanding how climate change will impact our homes, identifying priority risks and acting on them now can save landlords, residents and local services time, money and disruption. … Read more
Overheating Thresholds for Londoners
Lead partners: Environment Agency & Greater London Authority
This research project explores the nature of overheating events so that we may reduce the risks for Londoners, and keep our city running efficiently in future heatwaves. … Read more
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Guidance
Lead partners: Greater London Authority, London Boroughs
LCCP has developed a resource for policy-makers which addresses the connection between health, well-being and environmental change. The guidance identifies the strategic challenges involved and outlines what practical steps can be taken to increase the health and resilience of London’s communities. … Read more
Health and Social Care Programme
LCCP has been working with the health professionals and organisations since 2010 to identify the risks and opportunities they face from climate change, and help them adapt accordingly. … Read more
Capturing Adaptation Research for London
Lead Partners: UKCIP, Environment Agency
LCCP has identified a need to build and improve networks between academic research, local decision makers and sectors that need to adapt to climate change. … Read more
Retrofitting social housing: Barking & Dagenham
Lead partners: Sustainable Homes, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Mayor of London, Sprunt, United House, Environment Agency
Barking and Dagenham Council recently carried out a major retrofit of two tower blocks that included a range of climate change adaptation features, based upon LCCP guidance. We are producing a findings report to learn from this project – highlighting the most successful aspects of the work, lessons learnt, cost-benefit and scalability. … Read more