As the climate emergency accelerates, its effects are becoming increasingly hard for Londoners to ignore. This year, London saw the most summer wildfires since the record-breaking heatwave of 2022. In the decades to come, extreme heat and flash flooding will become an ever more ordinary part of our lives. If we want to protect Londoners from the worst consequences of our rapidly warming world, then improving our natural environment isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s essential.
