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Social Workstream
Final Report
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The Social Workstream Workshop held on the 20 th May was attended by a broad range of
delegates representing key organisations - including the GLA, Thames Estuary Partnership,
Transport for London, Forum for the future, the Directorate of Health and Social Care, and the
Corporation of London. The workshop was designed to allow the stakeholders to expand on
areas of particular concern, highlighted at the main stakeholder event, specifically social,
political and cultural aspects of London life.
The workshop was based on a definition of ‘social’: “overall health and well-being, social and
economic equity, public safety, public health and infrastructure, civil cultural and political
society (including political institutions), and who bears the cost and reaps the benefits in future
London.” From this base the group examined three key areas in detail: flooding, higher
temperatures; and impacts of climate change upon demography.
Notes from the workshop were circulated for approval and further comment and have been
drawn together in Section 6.
Economic Workstream
The Economic Workstream output was based on a series of one to one interviews (meetings,
telephone interviews and e-mail correspondence) conducted between the 10 th -21 st June. The
sectoral stakeholders involved included representatives from Insurance companies (CGNU &
D. Crichton), the National Grid, Thames Water, Business Services (Frost, KPMG),
Environmental business, the London Tourist Office and Manufacturing industry. Notes from
the interviews were circulated for approval and further comment and the results combined with
information produced from an extensive literature review to produce Section 7.
STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP
Seventy stakeholders attended a workshop on the impacts of climate change in London on May
1 st 2002, held at the GLA offices in London. A series of presentations were made followed by
small group discussions on the social, economic and environmental aspects of the impacts of
climate change on London.
REVIEW OF IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
For the discussion sessions the stakeholders were split into six groups. Two groups focused on
social impacts of climate change, two groups looked at environmental impacts of climate
change and two groups looked at economic impacts of climate change.
Each group was asked to:
1. Identify gaps in the characterisation of London presented by Entec UK Ltd
2. Identify impacts of climate change around the key characteristics of London
3. Prioritise two impacts they wished to discuss in greater detail (shown below as number of
votes)
4. Discuss their chosen impacts in detail by responding to a series of questions