The UK does not have a history of climate adaptation to cope with extreme heat but this now must be at the top of the agenda for government, organisations, cities and the public.
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The authors highlight the barriers that must be overcome to safeguard the UK against heatwaves and provides recommendations for what the government and local authorities need to prioritise, including:
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We delve into a newly released ETC CA paper.This technical paper scrutinizes what is needed to track the progress of just resilience for Europe. Lager uses the context of urban areas to illustrate some of the findings.
“Not every community can afford to have a full-time chief heat officer, so what is the structure that works for smaller and medium-sized communities?” said a University of Arizona assistant professor.
Last year, hundreds of community members, regulatory agencies, and advocates (including UCS) weighed in on the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed standards to strengthen the Risk Management Program (RMP).
Bihar’s heat action plan contains important strategies but is underfunded and poorly implemented – a theme common across Indian states’ responses to the growing problem of extreme heat, experts say
The establishment of a new organization in Japan integrating the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) and the National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) was officially decided on May 31 in preparation for infectious disease crises.
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The Committee of Ministers responsible for Disaster Risk Management of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has called for accelerated disaster preparedness and resilience building to mitigate the devastating impacts of natural disasters.
