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A series of presentations at the workshop provided some background for the participants on
climate change scenarios and their potential impact on London. This set the scene for the
breakout discussion groups (a total of six discussion groups two groups for each workstream)
that followed. During the breakout discussions, stakeholders were invited to:
• Identify the key social/environmental/economic characteristics of London;
• Identify potential impacts of climate change on London related to these
characteristics;
• Prioritise impacts on London that they considered required further research;
• Expand and debate the priority impacts on social/environmental/economic aspects
of London;
• Identify threats and opportunities for London presented by climate change impacts.
Key Impacts Identified by Stakeholders
The discussions that resulted provided a considerable amount of information and demonstrated a
broad range of views. The key impacts discussed in detail are shown in Table 1.
Table 1 Key impacts identified by stakeholders
Social impacts Environmental impacts Economic impacts
Housing Air Quality Transport
Air Quality (Health) Biodiversity Business profiles
Built Environment Flooding Workforce
Migration Water Resources Wealth Generation
The impacts identified in Table 1 (and their inter-relationships) are discussed in detail elsewhere
in this report.
Opportunities and Threats
Following the group discussion, individuals were given an additional opportunity to express
personnel opinions on the impacts of climate change. This was achieved through a ‘post-it note
exercise’ in which each delegate recorded their own views on the opportunities and threats
which climate change would create and recorded them under social, environmental and
economic headings. Key results are outlined in Table 2. These results were used as a primary
input into each workstream workshop and are considered in detail in Sections 5, 6 &7.