Documents and publications

This study aims to synthesise existing knowledge on urban heat island mechanisms, patterns, and impacts; review strategies for reducing UHI and heat risks; and develop a conceptual framework to support urban heat resilience and sustainable city planning.

This study investigates how disaster and emergency management professionals prioritize the factors that shape disaster risk and resilience across different contexts.

Policy paper proposing an animal-inclusive approach to the Sendai Framework by integrating animal welfare, biodiversity and sentient beings into disaster risk reduction.

The study aims to assess Delhi's increasing heat stress and looks into propose roadmap that combines year-round city-wide heat resilience measures with targeted interventions for vulnerable groups.

This scoping note examines how intensifying heat-waves threaten every link of India’s power-sector value chain and outlines a roadmap for climate-ready electricity systems.

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.

This report provides a global overview Heat Early Warning Systems, examining where they exist, how they are designed and operated, and their challenges and opportunities.

This report explores public perceptions of the threat of climate change - perceptions that are shaped by people’s lived experience of risk in their daily lives as much as by scientific evidence.