Big city plans

The key to London's climate-change adaptation lies in its defences against increases in flooding and temperature, which will affect all industries from finance to logistics. London has become an 'urban heat island'; it suffers from greater absorption of heat into building fabrics, which results in an intensified rise in temperature due to all the buildings, tarmac roads and people. New and existing buildings and infrastructure will need to be adapted to integrate low-carbon cooling methods to prevent the massive 5,900 heat-related deaths predicted by 2050.