Projects

The following projects are being developed as part of the Partnership’s workplan for 2010-12:

London Health and Social Care Climate Action Plan
Network of weather stations for London
Urban Greening
RE:NEW Retrofitting Programme
Retrofitting a social housing development
Drain London
Overheating thresholds for Londoners
Monitoring Adaptation
Local Expertise

London Health and Social Care Climate Action Plan

London’s Health and Social Care sector is a huge employer and estate-owner, and its services are one of our capital’s most vital resources. We’ve been working with staff from these organisations to identify the risks and opportunities they face from climate change, and to help them adapt accordingly.

The Risk Assessment Report carried out by LCCP in 2009/10 on this sector was the first of its kind. We also intend to share the learning of this project more widely.

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Network of weather stations for London

We are working with partners from academia, financial trading, government, utility and technology sectors on a feasibility study into improving our understanding of London’s microclimate through future weather observations and data sharing.

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Urban Greening

Adding value to London’s urban greening projects with additional work on monitoring and social impacts.

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RE:NEW Retrofitting Programme

We’re working with GLA and LDA to ensure that water efficiency measures are also included in this programme of upgrading 1.8m homes in London by 2015. This will help us adapt to future water shortages as a city, as well as saving the householders money.

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Retrofitting a social housing development

Two blocks of social housing will be retrofitted for protection against climate impacts, including overheating. This will be a demonstration, using the measures described in Your Home in a Changing Climate.

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Drain London

Drain London is project that will produce a London-wide plan to manage and reduce surface water flooding. The project is managed by the GLA and funded by Defra, working with London Councils, Thames Water and the Environment Agency. As the project progresses, LCCP will work to support this programme and add value to it in two ways:

A demonstration project to trial the performance of new adaptive road or pavement surface treatments to reduce flooding and overheating
Enabling the development of a community flood plan with a London community at high flood risk.

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Overheating thresholds for Londoners

In the 2003 heatwave, 600 Londoners died from overheating. We are undertaking a research project to explore the nature of overheating events like this, so that we may reduce the health risks for Londoners in future heatwave events.

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Monitoring Adaptation

This project will aim to establish how embedded the understanding of climate change adaptation is in London’s construction and development industries. By learning more about the industry’s motivation to adapt, we’ll be making our work on adaptation more effective and efficient.

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Local Expertise

We continue to provide local evidence of climate impacts, examples of good practice, learning from research and feedback, including inputting to:

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