Heat and education

Heat Smart Schools is a guidance framework by CDRI to help schools adapt to rising extreme heat risks. With over two billion children projected to face frequent heatwaves by 2050, the document emphasizes that heat threatens health, learning, and equity.

Climate change is making southern Africa hotter. While much attention has focused on climate impacts like droughts, floods and food insecurity, another crisis is unfolding quietly inside classrooms.

This policy brief summarises the results and discusses the policy implications of an assessment the number of schools and students at risk of rising temperatures in 2050 across 13 OECD countries and economies.

In many countries across the Northern Hemisphere, school reopens in early autumn — a time that is supposed to offer a welcome break from the intense summer heat.

This study outlines how rising extreme heat poses growing risks to pupils and staff in schools across the United Kingdom, highlighting limited preparedness and the absence of robust heat action plans.

A new study finds greening school playgrounds can improve quality of life in cities and help deal with climate change.

From extreme heat and floods to earthquakes and cyclones, a wealth of examples collected on PreventionWeb offer clear evidence that disaster risk reduction delivers tangible results.