News and Events Categories: Natural Environment
Urban Albedo: digital tools for urban resilience and growth
September 5, 2018
The Urban Albedo project, which aims to create an urban albedo calculation tool to help planners, urban designers, architects, engineers, and others cool the city through good design and selection of building materials. This event, marking the first day of Green Great Britain Week, provides an opportunity for urban practitioners and planners to learn about … Read more
Heat Risk in London Group
April 30, 2018
Featured presentations from the GLA GI focus map, a new heat-related Surrey University fellowship, and a project on urban albedo. For more information, contact Kristen.
Earth Observation Data and City Adaptation Monitoring
February 2, 2018
We’re delighted to invite partners and stakeholders to a workshop bringing together world-class expertise in Earth Observation research and decision-makers from across sectors to support climate change adaptation in London. The workshop, convened by the London Climate Change Partnership and the Space4Climate group, will include three keynote talks to set the context and then a … Read more
URBANFLUXES demonstration meetings
November 20, 2017
URBANFLUXES project information The URBANFLUXES project will run two demonstration meetings on December 6, one for scientists and technical stakeholders, and one for decision-makers concerned with reducing urban heat, improving thermal comfort, and improving energy efficiency. H2020-Space project URBANFLUXES (URBan ANthrpogenic heat FLUX from Earth observation Satellites) investigated the potential of Copernicus Sentinels to distinguish … Read more
Infrastructure interdependencies workshop March 10
February 14, 2017
LCCP, in partnership with London Resilience and TfL, are pleased to host a half-day workshop on 10 March 2017 at City Hall, where we will use London Resilience’s Anytown methodology to explore interdependencies within the critical systems that our city depends on for its day-to-day functioning. Understanding and being able to articulate these interdependencies and potential cascading … Read more
Wetland Futures Conference 2015
September 7, 2015
This conference will deliberate the impacts and issues of keeping the policy and management of freshwater and saltwater habitats separate in the UK. It will be of particular interest to all those involved with water environment related issues. … Read more
Local Solutions for Better Resilience to a Changing Climate
June 17, 2014
On Monday 16 June Climate UK hosted a conference under the theme ‘Resilience to a Changing Climate: Sharing Local Solutions’. … Read more
London Tree Week
June 4, 2014
The month of May saw the return of London Tree Week (24-31 May), a week-long celebration of London’s leafiness. … Read more