International Workshop on Heatwaves 2025

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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Cool Coalition will partner with India’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to co-host the International Workshop on Heat Waves 2025 on February 13-14 in New Delhi. The event, themed “Advancing City-Level Heat Action Plans: Multi-Sectoral Adaptation for Resilient Communities,” will bring together national and international experts, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss strategies for strengthening heat resilience.

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Workshop Outcomes

The workshop will focus on key strategies to strengthen and expand heat adaptation efforts:

• Strengthening and scaling up city-level heat action plans and including long-term “redesign” of cities to mitigate extreme heat
• Innovative financing of HAPs and cities’ efforts to redesign and promote sustainable cooling
• Enhancing vertical and horizontal coordination across central ministries, state departments and with Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) for implementation of heat action plans, including roll-out of Heat Officers in India’s ULBs.
• Scaling up of innovative cooling solutions for the most vulnerable including passive cooling
• Further development of early warning systems.