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Our climate is changing. This strategy starts the process of planning in detail for how our great city must adapt to these changes. If we don’t make the necessary changes then many Londoners’ quality of life will gradually deteriorate, we may fail to capitalise on some of the benefits that the changing climate will bring and we will be poorly prepared for the more extreme and damaging weather that science says we must expect in future.

Even if all global greenhouse gas emissions could be stopped today, the immense inertia in Earth’s climate systems means that changes to our climate for the rest of this century are unavoidable. Preparing for these inevitable changes is not an alternative to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, but a parallel and complementary action. International efforts to reduce global emissions are not so far making the drastic reductions required, so we may be heading for further and potentially more profound changes to our climate.

For London, scientists currently forecast warmer, wetter winters and hotter drier summers, coupled with an increase in the frequency of extreme weather and rising sea levels. This means London will face increasing risk of flooding, drought and heatwaves.

Urban areas are inherently vulnerable to the impact of climate change ? the density of people and assets means that there is automatically more at stake. London’s position astride a tidal river, in a region of the UK where relatively little rainfall has to be shared by more people and where London’s microclimate can aggravate the impact of heatwaves, intensifies these challenges.

 

 

 

 

● Introduction
  - Chapter 1. London’s Future Climate 
  - Chapter 2. Flooding
  - Chapter 3. Drought 
  - Chapter 4. Overheating 
  - Chapter 5. Health 
  - Chapter 6. London’s Environment 
  - Chapter 7. London’s Economy
  - Chapter 8. Infrastructure

  - Next Steps

  - Appendix 1 : Acronyms 
  - Appendix 2 : References