Heat waves in Hanoi: how anticipatory action can help to mitigate a growing urban threat

This briefing examines the role that anticipatory action can play in addressing and mitigating heat waves, drawing on the process followed to implement a forecast-based financing project in Hanoi, Viet Nam.

The threats posed by rising global temperatures are increasing – and increasingly recognized. This project was also the first to be implemented in an urban setting and so offers useful lessons for practitioners working in such contexts. Launched in 2017, it used forecast-based financing to establish a set of anticipatory actions to help mitigate the growing impacts of heat waves on vulnerable people in the country's urban areas.