for this purpose the city has created a green steering committee whose function is to gather the information and acquire the knowledge needed to inform future policy actions introducing flexibility as an integral part of the climate action plan helps policymakers avoid path dependence and will enable the cost of future adjustments in response to unexpected events and the emergence of new information to be lowered the plan was developed by the united kingdom environment agency as a means of addressing sealevel rise and the threat of flooding that it poses to london