London scoping - ukcip

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climate change is likely to be incremental in terms of its effects in problems that
already exist rather than posing new problems i.e. London is essentially not
sustainable.
• Geoff Jenkins presentation very helpful, others less so. Breakout sessions too long,
too noisy.
• In the morning presentations, which were generally very good, there seemed to be
an assumption that the audience was familiar with some of the technical issues and
jargon.
• Facilitation could be better. Opportunity for ideas was stifled!
• The work of this group (Acchiles) is crucial. It will benefit from being ‘joined-up’
by attendance from most stakeholders.
• I found the venue rather difficult - difficult to hear/see initial presentations. Rather
noisy in the workshops. Hope this could be addressed in future sessions?
Otherwise a very useful and wide ranging morning - Thanks.
• I know that due to over subscription of people to groups you wished to allocate
people. However, I think that maybe workshops should be allocated by a first
come first serve basis so people have the opportunity to talk about areas that they
are most interested in. This may generate more of a debate.
• Workshop very well organised (Emily did a great job in our group!) I look forward
to receiving a report of the outcomes from the day.
• The space in which such a large group was required to undertake open discussion
made it a little difficult to hear comments by other group members.
• Vast subject to cover in short period of time. Many other aspects to do with
development of London and sustainable development touched on due to wide
reaching effects of climate change and interests of stakeholders present.
• Very encouraging start to this project. Very good mix of people, all of whom were
keen to participate.
• It was good to see representatives from a wide spectrum of organisations together
in the same workshop. The people present not only represent a source of ideas but
potentially a lot of information/data which could feed into the study.
• Workshop was well organised and run. A great deal of knowledge was displayed
by participants and researchers. Increased my knowledge of (localised) climate
change and possible implications quite considerably.
• Initial presentation by Entec a little basic - need deeper study.
• Background work should consider individual mayoral strategies and not just the
(draft or consultation draft) London Plan - which does not contain the detail. For
biodiversity, don’t rely on English Nature’s and RSPB’s rural focus for telling us
what we need to know about urban bio impacts. I am especially interested in