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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.
London School of Economics and Political Science, the
Forty Pittsburgh Public schools are moving to remote learning for the rest of the week after the district created a new protocol for the heat.
CBS News, CBS Corporation
Digital thermometer showing a high temperature in a town
By the year 2100, the U.S. will experience more frequent and intense heat waves, especially in Alaska and states located in the Southeast and Southwest.
Frontera
Climate change represents one of the most uncertain and far-reaching integrated risk challenges faced by the global economy today.
Risk Management Solutions
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.
Stockholm Environment Institute
GRII secures new agreements and funding to provide open, globally consistent climate risk data for governments and financial institutions to scale-up climate adaptation, resilience and loss and damage finance and protect exposed communities and economies.
Insurance Development Forum
‘We are not considered citizens, and we are given none of the rights or freedoms of other ethnic minorities.’
The New Humanitarian
People sitting during a hot day
A certain neighbourhood in a city might trap heat more efficiently than its surroundings, or might be ventilated by a cool sea breeze, or be in the “rain shadow” of a local hill, making it less humid.
Conversation Media Group, the