Lorenz, SusanneMarsham, JohnAlotaibi, Muteb2025-11-232025(“Leeds Harvard”)https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14154/77114Introduction Climate change has increasingly been considered a critical factor that influences risk assessment and decision-making across different sectors (Hulbert et al., 2019), particularly in the urban healthcare and social care systems (Wilbanks et al., 2013). The increasing intensity and frequency of extreme weather events such as flooding, storms, and heat waves pose significant threats to social infrastructure and public health (Bell et al., 2018). According to WHO (2023), between 2030 and 2050, climate change will cause approx. Two hundred fifty thousand additional deaths per year and the reasons behind this are malaria, heat stress, diarrhea, and malnutrition. Met Office (2022) also reported that extreme weather events have doubled in the past 50 years, especially in urban areas such as Leeds. One of the primary reasons for this is that Leeds is vulnerable due to high population density, socio-economic disparities, and aging infrastructure (Centre for Ageing BeKer Report, 2021).Executive Summary This report explores the urgent need to integrate localized climate data into health and social care systems in Leeds. It highlights existing vulnerabilities and systemic barriers prevuing effective climate risk adaptation. This white paper investigates how climate information is integrated into decision-making and risk assessment within Leeds's healthcare and social care sectors to enhance resilience and adaptation strategies. This section outlines a qualitative methodology involving semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders in Leeds to explore how climate information is integrated into risk assessment and decision-making in health and social care. Despite growing climate threats, Leeds's health and social care sector lacks integrated, equity-focused, and actionable risk governance, limiting the effectiveness of current climate resilience efforts17enClimate informationRisk assessmentDecision-makingClimate adaptationclimate changeEnvironmental StudiesThesis